‘You cannot have two captains in a ship’ is a settled societal belief which rests on the notion that the buck must stop with one person who is considered the Captain of the ship, whatever that ship is. I often wonder however, what would happen if the buck stopped with a wrong Captain as it so often happens.
That realization led to a loss of some of their mystique for me. This probably helped in doing my job better because I was no longer awed by even the best of them. In any case, I was the one who asked the questions and directed proceedings for the hour or so that the interview would take, so I was ‘the leader’ in the room. The first Nigerian M.
And now, how long would it take before a couple of unstable, megalomaniac leaders lead the rest of us to another World War? The world population hovers around eight billion; yet those who are truly capable of triggering the process of World War 111 are just about half a dozen – a rough ratio of 1: I billion. It does worry me that these leaders are not the best for the times. The past three decades have witnessed festering tensionin some troubled spots around the world.