IP: Ask Andy Grove to name a great leader. ``Franklin Roosevelt,'' he says, and offers sound reasons for his choice. [a great article must reading djf]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:12:47 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Dave, we're starting an occasional series in Sunday's paper, to explore
> the essence of leadership in these changing times. I started with Andy
> Grove --
>
> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg012300a.htm
>
> -----
>
> Ask Andy Grove to name a great leader. ``Franklin Roosevelt,'' he says,
> and offers sound reasons for his choice.
>
> Equally compelling logic will inform tomorrow's historians when they're
> asked to name the great business leaders of this era -- and Grove will
> unquestionably be on that list.
>
> This is a pivotal time. In this election year, we'll select the political
> leaders who'll lead government toward a new century, amid massive change,
> even turmoil, in almost every kind of institution we know.
>
> Silicon Valley -- a metaphor as much as a place these days -- is at the
> epicenter of these shifts. In a period of such transformation, it seemed
> worthwhile to explore the nature of leadership, and to do so from a valley
> perspective. What is leadership? How does it differ in various settings,
> from political to business to moral? What is technology's impact on
> leadership? Does leadership change with the era, or are its principles
> fundamental, even immutable?
>
> In coming months I'll be asking these and other questions of Silicon
> Valley people who, by one measure or another, are leaders. I hope these
> conversations will help us understand some of the decisions that shaped
> their lives, and those of the people they've led.
>
> etc...
>
> Dan Gillmor, Tech Columnist
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