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From his Office Hours series, Victor David Hanson discusses Themistocles' leadership ..

We at the public school of public policy are trying to give people degrees and training, but that does not mean that they have to be quiet and invisible bureaucrats. So what we're trying to do is inculcate the ability, whether it's in themselves or maybe more often they have in others, to spot Mavericks.  If you look at the cursus honorum or the dossier of Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett or especially Elon Musk, they don't fit the right the right steps to power and yet they're three of the richest most most successful men in the world because they're mavericks, they're eccentrics, they have ideas that go against consensus.  If you can train people who will more likely be in positions in the corporate boardroom or in government to encounter those people rather than to be those people, although some will be those people, then you want to make them open for the uncharacteristic or the maverick and not to be prejudicial just because because their resumés are not what most people would like.  I think that's very important and there does seem to be in these cases a connection with enormously capable minds, instinctive brilliance, common sense, all the the aspects of leadership that in some ways are antithetical to getting along with people or to being approved.