Einstein said in 1945, "Now everything has changed 1 our manner of thinking... We shall require a 2 new manner of thinking if mankind is 3 ." Then, what leadership is required today The first requirement is a new kind of leadership 4 a new manner of thinking.
From ancient times to the present, the most 5 leaders have been war leaders, many of them warriors themselves, 6 for their heroic deeds as in the ancient world, more commonly for heroic 7 in the modem world. Many were indeed great leaders, like Churchill, who through eloquence and force of 8 inspired the British people to stand against Hitler"s onslaught. But 9 , what was so great about Alexander the Great, who 10 the culture, politics, or religion of the ancient world, whose 11 was one of conquest, destruction, serf-aggrandizement, and savagery
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age 12 a different kind of leadership—a leadership of intellect, judgment, 13 , and rationality, a leadership committed to 14 , to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition.
Today we need a leadership that recognizes that the fundamental challenge in this nuclear hi-tech era is one of psychology and education 15 human relations. It is not the kind of problem that is likely to be resolved 16 —even the sophisticated expertise of our most gifted military thinkers, who 17 exotic weapon systems and strategic doctrines. The attributes 18 are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and 19 . As Abraham Lincoln put it in his second 20 to Congress, during the worst days of the Civil War, "As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "