Steve,
Excellent article you've written here.  I agree with Tristan that it is deeply moving.  It helps all to remember that a strong leadership sets the course.  There is still a pervasive misunderstanding that strong leadership is inappropriate and always the equivalent of a dictatorship.  It isn't and doesn't have to be.  The result of this  misunderstanding has been "leadership by committee".    It is failing in many organizations because it isn't leadership. It is a vacuum -- a void.

Bravo to this post. I will RT on Twitter.
Kate Nasser