The Anatomy Of Fire: Sparking A New Spirit Of Enterprise

Tom L. Brown defines 21st Century leadership in this book. He talks about the importance of leaders embracing five key traits: discovery, enthusiasm, resourcefulness, resolve, and contributing to society. The leader's art, he asserts, is in the leader's heart.
As Jim Collins (of Built To Last and Good To Great fame) says in his Foreword to Tom's book: "Above all else, Tom pushes us to not be a mere placeholder in the world…. He challenges us to make our lives, our work, our influence, our impact on others a unique contribution that cannot be duplicated. And the most compelling argument he gives is his own personal example as exemplified by this work."
What is Fire about? What is progressive thinking? Who is a 21st Century Leader? There are hundreds of books on “leadership,” but the term is meaningless because “leaders” have become placeholders, people dedicated to preserving the status quo to maintain power and control, to extract personal wealth, or to promote self-aggrandizement. An historical view (going back to when our planet looked much like the raw wonder of Yellowstone National Park) reveals that leadership over time was first and foremost about the nurturing of powerful new ideas to make society better.