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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Namekuseijin makes a good point. Do leaders lead or merely sit back and command? The contrast between Agamemnon and Zeus, assuming that the gods represent an ideal, is telling.
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Ralph Klein, a former long-time, popular and successful premier of the province of Alberta used to say "the secret to political success lies in figuring out where the parade is going, then getting in front of it" (quoted from a John Ibbitson article in the Globe and Mail). I doubt things were all that different 3000 years ago.
