Quote of the Day -- On Leadership

The New York Times has an excellent article and interview posted yesterday by Thomas Friedman,  He interviewed a friend, Dov Seidman, founder and chairman of the ethics and compliance company LRN and the How Institute for Society, which promotes values-based leadership.

The quote:

"Great leaders trust people with the truth. And they make hard decisions guided by values and principles, not just politics, popularity or short-term profits. Great leaders understand that when so many vulnerable and scared people are so willing, so quickly, to put their livelihoods and even their lives in their leaders’ hands, and make sacrifices asked of them, they expect the truth and nothing but the truth in return. Leaders who trust people with the truth are trusted more in return. But you better not betray my trust — by not telling me the truth — when I have literally put my life in your hands...

...The leaders we will remember from this crisis are those who put more shared truth into our world, not muddied it. And those who put more trust into our world and not eroded it."

Would that we had such leadership today, especially from Washington and the White House.