The fourth C of Lee Iacocca's C list for leadership.

QUOTE from Ralph Nader: "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers."

Today I'm writing what I LEARNED about Lee Iacocca's fourth C in his list of nine traits of leadership. The fourth C is CHARACTER.

Iacocca said a leader has to be a person of CHARACTER. That means knowing the difference between right and wrong and having the guts to do the right thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "It you want to test a man's character, give him power." He went on to say that, "A man of character does not ask a single soldier to die for a failed policy." We have had presidents who have done that.

The fifth C starts with the letters CO _ _ _ _ _ and is seven letters long. Take a guess. Tomorrow I'll write about it

HUMOR for today.
A defending attorney was cross-examining a coroner. The attorney asked, "Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the man's pulse?"
    The coroner said, "No."
    The attorney then asked, "Did you listen for a heartbeat?"
    "No."
    "Did you check for breathing?"
    "No."
    "So when you signed the death certificate, you had not taken any steps to make sure the man was dead, had you?"
    The coroner, weary of the browbeating. said, "Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk, but for all I know he could be out there practicing law somewhere."