ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the anti-leadership vaccine is administered. The anti-leadership vaccine has other more subtle and powerful ingredients. For a good many academic and other professional people, negative attitudes toward leadership go deeper than skepticism concerning the leader's integrity. Leaders worthy of the name, whether they are university presidents or senators, corporation executives or newspaper editors, school superintendents or governors, contribute to the continuing definition and articulation of the most cherished values of our society. The capricious use of power is relatively rare except in some large dictatorships and some small family firms. Most leaders are hedged around by constraints—tradition, constitutional limitations, the realities of the external situation, rights and privileges of followers, the requirements of teamwork, and most of all the inexorable demands of large-scale organization. Leaders have a significant role in creating the state of mind that is the society. They can serve as symbols of the moral unity of the society.
