Seat at the Table

As we enter a time where a 200 point drop in the stock market is a mild day and a rescue a week is considered minimal action, the leadership vacuum is growing daily.  True, leaders are out there every day trying to calm the markets and outline plans, but their words seem to have little effect.  Their leadership is, as of this morning, failing.   So what’s missing?  A sense of responsibility.

Yes, I know, there will be that political crisis management philosophy that says deny, point and blame and the legal approach that says “never admit wrongdoing.”  But this is about true leadership and faith in government.   Everyone assumes the government played a critical role in letting the markets get to this point.  So if politicians are not, on behalf of the government, willing to take responsibility, how are we to have faith in their ability to be responsible for leading the fix to this problem.

We teach our children to take responsibility for their actions as, by doing so, people are more likely to trust them to do the right thing the next time around.  If our leaders don’t event have a grade-school level sense of responsibility, how are we to trust them with a global-level economic solution?