The Leaders We Deserve
“Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence and commonsense?”- Lee Iaccoca (Where Have All the Leaders Gone?)
‘The Conference of Birds’ is a peerless jewel in the crown of Islamic literature. Written in the 12th Century by the Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar, this epic poem tells of an avian Odyssey in search of a king. The birds want the Simorgh[i] to be their king; but when they reach the distant home of that legendary bird, after an epic-journey, all they find is a lake in which they see their own reflections.
