The article focuses on why leaders should be people who are willing to opt for a bold course of action when everybody else is choosing the middle path. In a world that is comfortable with people who maintain the status quo, in other words, are comfortably predictable, it is those who have the courage to forge along with their dreams, blazing fresh trails for others to follow, who have the best chances of coming out with solutions that transform their business, their industry and maybe even the world for the better.

The devastation inflicted upon the US financial system and global economy due to unchecked bad decisions made by executives has made the-powers-that-be extremely cautious. We continuously get to hear of new ideas that seek to rein in unrestrained risk-taking. Many of these ideas focus on the assumption that it was greed which drove most investment bankers to make reckless decisions, but that amounts to a pat conclusion which would inevitably lead to other grave problems in future. The need of the hour is to make sure that leaders exercise good judgment consistently.