What if leadership in your organization was like a pot of boiling water? It begins as a pool of cool water. When you apply heat, one or two little bubbles (leaders) begin to appear. They multiply creating a leadership "bubble effect" of "hot molecules" modeling and passing on leadership qualities to others. John Hersey tells us why an environment full of Contagious Leaders is not pie-in-the-sky thinking, not complicated, not expensive and, above all, not an option.
John Richard Hersey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, earliest practiced the "new journalism," which fuses storytelling devices of the novel with nonfiction reportage. A 36-member panel under the aegis of journalism department of New York University adjudged account of Hersey of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, as the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century.