The Anatomy of Fire: Sparking the Spirit of Enterprise by James C. Collins..What is Fire about? What is progressive thinking? Who is a 21st Century Leader? There are hundreds of books on “leadership,” but the term is meaningless because “leaders” have become placeholders, people dedicated to preserving the status quo to maintain power and control, to extract personal wealth, or to promote self-aggrandizement.
An historical view (going back to when our planet looked much like the raw wonder of Yellowstone National Park) reveals that leadership over time was first and foremost about the nurturing of powerful new ideas to make society better. Thus, Thomas L. Brown asserts in The Anatomy Of Fire that the 21st Century needs leaders who are discoverers of new ideas, who can win others to their point of view, who can acquire the resources to convert ideas into reality, who will stand by their ideas with steely resolve, and who are dedicated to improving mankind. Leaders are society’s vessels for progressive ideas; they are the unrelenting, unyielding, unremitting force for a new idea with the promise of positive change.
