Paul -- Your line, "legacy outlasts the ledger" would be a good, no great, title for a b-school class on doing things right as well as doing the right things to "change the course of thought" as you so eloquently phrase it. In far too many cases (in my opinion!), what CEOs, society, Wall Street, etc. value is skewed to rewarding the economics to the exclusion of all else. But that's also what they are rewarded for.

Here's the character-based leaders shining the light...delighted you're one of them!