Hugh Nibley "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift" (framing text)

Provides the leader-vs-manager dichotomy that structures the second half of the lecture. The German General Staff anecdote at §7.p1 is drawn from Nibley's text.

This comes from an address that Hugh Nibley gave at a commencement at a university in the early 1980s. It's called "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift." He says it pretty strongly, I can't say it any better than he said it. "Leaders are movers and shakers, original, inventive, unpredictable, imaginative, full of surprises that discomfort the enemy in war and the main office in peace." So this is the troublemaker. If you're at war, they're creating problems for the enemy by doing things differently. If you're at peace, they're creating problems for the administration. "Managers, on the other hand, are safe, conservative, predictable, conforming organization men and team players, dedicated to the establishment."