These values should be broadly understood and agreed to and should shape our corporate and individual behavior. These are not easy questions to deal with. Leaders are also responsible for future leadership. They need to identify, develop, and nurture future leaders. Leaders are responsible for such things as a sense of quality in the institution, for whether or not the institution is open to influence and open to change.
Effective leaders encourage contrary opinions, an important source of vitality.
I am talking about how leaders can nurture the roots of an institution, about a sense of continuity, about institutional culture. Leaders owe a covenant to the corporation or institution, which is, after all, a group of people. Leaders owe the organization a new reference point for what caring, purposeful, committed people can be in the institutional setting. I did not say what people can do what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. Corporations, like the people who compose them, are always in a state of becoming.