The quality of life of a community, whether it is a political unit or a business corporation, depends on the character of all its members and on the virtue of its leaders. The chapter describes the ten virtues of outstanding leaders needed for the leadership. They are deep honesty, moral courage, moral vision, compassion and care, fairness, intellectual excellence, creative thinking, aesthetic sensitivity, good timing, and deep selflessness. They describe a leader's way of reasoning, his or her most basic beliefs, and the emotions associated with those beliefs. By witnessing the lived display of deep honesty, moral courage, moral vision, compassion and care, fairness, intellectual excellence, creative thinking, aesthetic sensitivity, good timing, and deep selflessness, we can develop these virtues in our own lives in order to become very good, if not great, leaders.

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creative thinking