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Lead or Follow?

For ever since we measured time much ado has centered around leadership.  Leaders are the ones that always make the press.  There are tons of books about the subject and variety of recognition follows the leader that gets identified as such. I wanted to delve into the unsung heroes.  Well maybe heroes is too poetic or squishy.  How about the unsung?  Those that follow. There will be no leaders without followers.  Let us get that straight.  So what it really means is that a leader is only good as the followers that follow.  You follow? While inflection points in society occur due to some select few taking extraordinary risk there is also the momentum of the unsung that carries the ball across the finish line. I was reading about the great inventions of the 20th century and names like Edison and Einstein and Jobs made the top lists.  That they deserve a huge level of admiration is a given. But for all their ingenuity there was al...