Charlie Rose had a fascinating Interview of Klaus Schwab, Chairman, World Economic Forum.  The World Economic Forum is the organization that puts on the annual meeting of world leaders at Davos, Switzerland.

Among all the other interesting topics discussed, Charlie Rose got Klaus Schwab to discuss his understanding of leadership.  He defined leadership qualities as brains, heart, soul, and good nerves.

In discussing why there are fewer and fewer great leaders he said that the main deficiency was in the soul.  He went on to explain that it was understandable in the current environment because “instead of following your compass you have to find out what is the public opinion – more soul, vision, values part is sacrificed to the short term interest of gaining …”.  I couldn’t quite catch the last word.

At this point, I thought that after such a great interview and the showing of such great insight, that Klaus Schwab had somehow missed an important point.

The last sentence of the interview made me say “Hallelujah, he really does get it.”