What are the qualities that make a leader? One personality trait that seems to be absolutely necessary is the personality of an addict–someone who is a compulsive risk-taker, always seeking the new.

In the July 24th edition of the New York Times, David J. Linden asks the question, "How can this be? We typically see addicts as weak-willed losers, and chief executives and entrepreneurs are people with discipline and fortitude."
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Residents of an exclusive community near Louisville, Kentucky have started to hear loud booming noises, and nobody can figure out where they’re coming from. On the WBIR website, Jim Matheny quotes resident Andy Wombold as saying, "It’s scary-loud. It’s loud enough that it makes your heart stop for a second. It sounds like a shotgun or an explosion of some kind. "Last Monday, about a week and a half ago, it was around 3 a.m. and it was, ‘Pow!’ All the sudden we heard a loud explosion. It sounded like it came from inside our house. It shook the walls. It shook the floor. It shook the ceiling."
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We wait for economic recovery, but it doesn’t come. Millions of us remain unemployed. Whole neighborhoods, street after street, are abandoned, their residents victims of foreclosure. Washington is paralyzed. But the problem isn’t ours alone. Europe is on the brink of fiscal collapse. The Chinese stock market is teetering, and the Middle East continues to suffer political and economic chaos.

The question that burns within all of us is whether or not anything can be done, and if not, then what happens?
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