对于一位强有力的领导者来说，最关键的能力就是要对一些原则和目标坚定不移。任何领导如果很频繁的、很轻易的为大众意志而转移的话，他将会一事无成。

In addressing the issue it is helpful to consider, in turn, three distinct forms of leadership: business, political and social-spiritual.

1. In the business realm, effective leadership is generally defined, at least in our corporate culture, as that which achieves the goal of profit maximization for a firm’s shareholders or other owners.

2. In the political realm, stubborn adherence to one’s objective in the short term might serve a political leader’s interest in preserving his or her power, yet in the long term such behavior invariably results in that leader’s downfall.

3. Socio-spiritual leadership, in order to be effective, inherently requires that the leader remain steadfastly committed to principle.

少数和多数之领导与大众

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一个伟大国家最真实的体现不是它的统治者、艺术家或者科学家的成就，而是他所有老百姓的普通福利(幸福)。

1. Admittedly, the overriding imperative of any democratic state is to enhance the general welfare of its citizenry. Yet the speaker fails to provide a clear litmus test for measuring that welfare.

2. Many scientific achievements serve to enhance a nation’s general welfare.

3. Artistic achievement is also needed to make a nation a better place for humans overall.

4. We should also be careful not to hastily assume that a nation is necessarily great merely by virtue of the achievements of individual citizens.

社会精英和人民大众

the general welfare