There are many religious-based social issues that are so hard for society to address right now things like abortion and capital punishment they're better left for another time, ... It Takes a CEO: Leading with Integrity.
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Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consider a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.
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Ultimately, all these decisions are about money. If you're running a business, you've got to have income, and the income has got to cover expenses. And if you want to keep your position as CEO, you'd better satisfy the stockholders.
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You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay
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