Page 96 - Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich Full Book | Success Learned

SOME FERTILE FIELDS IN WHICH "NEW LEADERSHIP" WILL BE
REQUIRED

Before leaving this chapter, your attention is called to a few of the fertile fields in
which there has been a decline of leadership, and in which the new type of leader
may find an abundance of OPPORTUNITY.

First. In the field of politics there is a most insistent demand for new lead-
ers; a demand which indicates nothing less than an emergency. The majority of
politicians have, seemingly, become high-grade, legalized racketeers. They have
increased taxes and debauched the machinery of industry and business until the
people can no longer stand the burden.

97

NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

Second. The banking business is undergoing a reform. The leaders in this field
have almost entirely lost the confidence of the public. Already the bankers have
sensed the need of reform, and they have begun it.

Third. Industry calls for new leaders. The old type of leaders thought and moved
in terms of dividends instead of thinking and moving in terms of human equa-
tions! The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard himself as a quasi-
public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work
hardship on no individual, or group of individuals. Exploitation of working men
is a thing of the past. Let the man who aspires to leadership in the field of busi-
ness, industry, and labor remember this.

Fourth. The religious leader of the future will be forced to give more atten-
tion to the temporal needs of his followers, in the solution of their economic and
personal problems of the present, and less attention to the dead past, and the yet
unborn future.

Fifth. In the professions of law, medicine, and education, a new brand of leader-
ship, and to some extent, new leaders will become a necessity. This is especially
true in the field of education. The leader in that field must, in the future, find ways
and means of teaching people HOW TO APPLY the knowledge they receive in
school. He must deal more with PRACTICE and less with THEORY.

Sixth. New leaders will be required in the field of Journalism. Newspapers of
the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from "special privi-
lege" and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs
of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The
type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go