Where are the great leaders?  It seems to me I don’t see them in the news, the business world, the government, the social structure or the spiritual/religious structure.  What has become of the greatness in our leaders of today?  What makes up greatness?  Have we succumbed to success and not greatness?  Have we measured greatness by bank accounts, celebrity status,  the ability to control more people or headlines and tweets?

Why is it so difficult today to create greatness?  What does it take to foster it in a person?  What has happened to our society that we care so little for it and are happy to confuse wealth and power with greatness.  Are we more naive?  Why do we demand so little of our leaders.  Why do we settle?  What does it say about us?

I turned to my old companion for answers, “The Wisdom of Wallace Wattles”.  …