Ok, it is summer – there is not that much time to read in-depth treatises and expositions on leadership – so the earlier short posting that I wrote on June 2 caught the eyes of a couple of readers and they wrote me back.

– Here is another one (I think many of you know how much I respect our military men and women in uniform)-

Drucker recounts the story of an excellent history teacher he'd had – a man badly wounded in the First World War. The teacher, referring to the books around them, said: “Every one of these books says that the Great War was a war of incompetence. Why was it?” The teacher answered his own question: “because not enough generals were killed.”