From The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria:
“In the Middle East… when the region was ruled in a relatively lax and decentralized manner under the Ottoman Empire, trade, commerce, and innovation flourished…, but in the twentieth centry… dictatorships brought economic and political stagnation.”
This brief quote is a great analogy of the power of freedom over totalitarianism that challenges us as leaders. Are we more democratic or dictatorial?
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