Show 0 Q Q I 1 Leadership 1 E I Italian government commission that fH i t T i tile the loss Joss of the dirigible Italia Halia has I reported that the real cause of the tragedy panic resulting from the crews crew's loss of trust in their commander Thus the supreme importance Of leadership is emphasized All men even have llave in them great capacities for forc courage c sacrifice endurance and accomplish accomplish- nl nf Yet these capacities go to Waste vaste unless I reis a. a man who can draw them out the Halia her envelope doWn do by an accumulation of ice and snow began to sink ink toward the ice of the Arctic nearly n arly everyone on board ignoring the comin corn com in m began to throw out ballast and to shout hol t. t confused d. d an and contradictory y orders ders Lightened too fast by tillS this chaotic activity I the airship shot upward too again rapidly Quickly the stricken panic crew d that ct course urse too would mean speedy tion Again came caine confusion More frightened than ever the crew again ignored the corn com mander rushed to the hydrogen valves and 0 opened them wide Tile The upward trend was checked Too much gas was out and th the ship came down rapidly to crash on the S. S lC ic with tragic results I The iThe Italia's cre v cre it iss is's fe to say was no b better and n no worse than other ther airship crews Individually tile the Ihen vho ho flew to the north pole with Nobile were as good as could be But tiling thing possible in any they lacked confidence in their Jeader For some reason he e was unable to daw r v t from them the obedience loyalty and I C trust that Eckener for inStance got from the t nen on the Graf Zeppelin when it fl flew w tile the Atlantic I C So they caine to grief Tile The tragedy was inevitable When leadership fails there is flO remedy dy t This of COUrse cb is a truth that should b be J b well known to need repeating y et we ve j t c about it We Ve do not often that forget what we are is usually deter determined jn in large meaSure by our choice of a A All of us tile best and tile the worst have two extremes concealed within us beutter be beutter utter cowards and unspeakable or we be brave heroes and noble altruists No Noman Noman can man hying is not capable of going to the limit in either direction This if you OU took look at it right makes makes' for optimism Men who are equipped to lead their fellows and bring out tile the best there is in them are not too common yet after all they are not so hard to find as might be supposed They pop up unexpectedly Finding ti right one to follow is perhaps tile the most Important job that any of of us face Once it is done the rest is we Ve can do great things filings if we are rightly led |