We unduly exaggerate the contributions and the potential of private voluntarism while understating the legitimate social role of government. Those who emphasize the importance of one sector in maintaining or cultivating a caring society must now emphasize the limits of that sector as well. With the decline of ideology, the emerging vision for the new world order may very well be a transformation of the emphasis in the 1980s on national patriotism into a new form of earth patriotism in which humanity seeks to live at harmony with itself, with nature, and with the cosmos. The successful leaders of the future are likely to be those who understand what it means to share power rather than simply dominate it. Those who seek power only to concentrate it will ultimately lose it to those who seek it in order to diffuse it.
Diversity is increasingly a precondition to effectiveness .
What we once claimed to be a moral imperative can now be seen as a part of enlightened self-interest. In its presentations to the Olympic Committee, the Atlanta Organization Committee argued that Atlanta s racial harmony could be a model for harmony among different groups around the world. Some of the delegates who voted for Atlanta commented after the selection that they were swayed by the fact that the team that promoted Atlanta was multiracial and seemed to work well together. In other words, diversity provided a competitive advantage. Several thousand unemployed construction workers in Atlanta now have jobs because the city leadership was a model of diversity.