Consider President George H.W. Bush, who did not do “the vision thing,” but whose sound management and execution underpinned one of the most successful US foreign-policy agendas of the past half-century. Perhaps genetic engineers will one day be able to produce leaders equally endowed with both vision and management skills; comparing the two Bushes (who shared half their genes), it is clear that nature has not yet solved the problem.
就变革型领导人和“维持型”领导人的区别而言，其他领导技能更加重要。比如，老布什总统从来不做“远在天边的事”，但其踏实的管理和执行打造了美国过去50年中最成功的外交日程。或许有朝一日基因工程师能够打造出兼具愿景和管理技能的领导人，比较布什父子（他们身上一半的血液是一样的），显然，天性并不是解决问题的全部。