Screwtape could not have answered me better or made a finer toast than you have here. [grin]

Gentle, toying playfulness aside, your reply emphasizes that leadership is about me and my fantasies. I'm already reminiscing about fast cars, bottles of Dom Perignon bubbling over at the uncork and weekend castle get aways of my past and, hopefully again in my future.

But is there a better word for my own cunning and self-absorbed ambitions? Because there is the other side of "fantasy" - an inadequate substitute for love, compassion and service, an embarrassing and cavalier romp in the kitty's sand box and, perhaps too, just desserts (the same dessert wine that John gives us glimpse in Revelation).

Good questions beget more good questions. Quick and easy answers, I fear, are dangerous.

What about objective... truth, goodness and beauty. Was Plato mistaken? Thomas Aquinas? Thomas Jefferson? C.S. Lewis? Jacques Maritain? Martin Luther King, Jr.?

I highly recommend a classic on the topic of leadership, Yves Simon's A General Theory of Authority. It is, however, not light reading like a Maxwell, Ziggy or a Tony.

No fear! Be safe, my friends.