Identity

Your identity is made up of all the parts that make you, you. We can choose some aspects of our identity, such as the clothes we wear, the activities we enjoy, the sport we pursue. Other aspects of identity are not within our control, such as our race, parents, or range of abilities. It is the leader’s job to both acknowledge these identities and “stand above” them.

THE LEADER’S ROLE

“In a landscape ferociously divided on economic, regional, racial, and creedal lines, the job of leaders is to stand above these divides and seek to heal them. The job of leaders is not to impose their values on everyone else; it is to defend a pluralistic order in which different communities can work out their own values.

DAVID BROOKS