"You can’t fix a mistake you won’t admit. If this generation of leaders can’t acknowledge their..."

“You can’t fix a mistake you won’t admit. If this generation of leaders can’t acknowledge their failure to be leaders, they’re not going to regain the credibility, legitimacy, and power they have lost. That, and no less, will tell people that the people formerly known as the middle class that the people they call leaders but are something more like historic, jaw-dropping failures, slumlords of human potential, have, at long last opened their closed eyes.”

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Umair Haque, How This Generation of Leaders Failed Leadership

‘slumloards of human potential’ has a ring to it, doesn’t it?

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/140912522602