The oath of leadership

The authors of Executive Insights have been invited by this magazine to offer their professional opinions and analysis to you, the reader. Executive magazine does not endorse the analysis of Insight authors, nor should the Insights be interpreted as reflecting the views or opinions of Executive or its editorial staff. A few months back I was sitting in the audience at the Global Competiveness Forum in Riyadh when Angel Cabrera, dean of the Thunderbird School of Management, one of the top 100 international management schools in the world, walked up to the podium. “I owe you an apology,” he said. This caught my attention as I wondered why in the world this man from Arizona would need to apologize to global heads of states and executives from top corporations. “I, actually myself and the deans of the top business programs, owe the world an apology for the financial crisis,” he