Tuesday, August 7, 2007

True Leadership

In the now classic film Apocalypse Now, the scene that has always struck me as perhaps the most frightening is the one in which Captain Willard (played by Martin Sheen), on his quest upriver to find Colonel Kurtz, comes to a camp where American soldiers rebuild a bridge each day, and the Viet Cong blow it up each night. When Willard asks a soldier, “Who’s in charge here?” the soldier replies, “Ain’t you?” . . .