Angel Martinez '77 for one thing. Martinez, chief executive officer of both Reebok and Rockport shoe manufacturers, firmly believes that the success of his companies is due as much to leadership as to attention to podiatry and worries that the art of the former isn't being developed institutionally at an early enough age.
Leadership is a very undemonstrated, misunderstood, underutilized force in our country.
It's not focused on in schools as it should be. Most of the changes you're going to see in the world will come from leadership and not from technology. Through it all, he remains convinced that his singular perspective on shoes will yield even greater triumphs, such as SmartGel, a new viscous substance designed to remold the inside of a shoe every time it is worn.