Societies that rely on heroic leaders are slow to develop the civil society and broad social capital that are necessary for leading in a modern networked world. Modern leadership turns out to be less about who you are or how you were born than about what you have learned and what you do as part of a group.
依靠英雄人物的社会在发展公民社会以及对领导现代网络世界必需的广阔社会资本上是 很缓慢的。现代领导力较少的关于你是谁或你是怎样出生的，而更多的是关于你学到了什么以及作为一个团体的一部分你做了什么。虽然天生的因素和后天的培养相互交织，但是在现代社会，后天的培养比英雄范例认为的重要得多。