ELIZABETH SAMET

“ ‘Crises of leadership are the order of the day at the beginning of the twenty-first century,’ Elizabeth Samet writes, in the introduction to Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers (Norton). . . . Samet believes that our growing addiction to the narrative of crisis has gone hand in hand with an increasing veneration of leadership—a veneration that leaves us vulnerable to ‘the false prophets, the smooth operators, the gangsters, and the demagogues’ who say they can save us.’”

Joshua Rothman, “Shut Up and Sit Down, Why the Leadership Industry Rules,” the New Yorker, February 29, 2016, page 64.