Printed from the Urban Tulsa Weekly website:   Pathways to
Leadership  Qualities we should expect in our elected leaders
By Terry Simonson  Leadership. We all know we need it, and we
think we know it when we see it. Yet time and again many wonder
why we're so bad at picking good people to be our leaders.
Certainly it's true that the majority of those chosen to lead in
our public and private world do so successfully. Sadly, those
success stories are rarely reported. Instead, it's the failure
of our leaders that grab our attention, sometimes leaving us
shocked and disappointed.  Ronald Reagan may have said it best
during his first inaugural address as Governor of California
when he said: "If no one among us is capable of governing
himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone
else?"  We live in a time of great skepticism -- even cynicism
-- about leaders and leadership. Perhaps it's because when
judging those who aspire to be our leaders we are more focused
on their charm, resume and academic c