Solitude and Leadership

This article really struck a chord. Over the years I have seen many leaders who are very ordinary people who have reached a position that does give off the sense of them being a "shark".  The article also speaks about why we should avoid distractions and take time to read, and read books from past times, to improve our ability to set a course.

Here is one of the opening paragraphs (the full article is here http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ )

Leadership is what you are here to learn—the qualities of character and mind that will make you fit to command a platoon, and beyond that, perhaps, a company, a battalion, or, if you leave the military, a corporation, a foundation, a department of government. Solitude is what you have the least of here, especially as plebes. You don’t even have privacy, the opportunity simply to be physically alone, never mind solitude, the ability to be alone with your thoughts. And yet I submit to you that solitude is one of the most important necessities of true leadership. This lecture will be an attempt to explain why.