Caro’s deep understanding of the inner workings of power offers senior executives a nuanced picture of leadership at the highest level.
For the past 27 years, the two-time Pulitzer prize–winning biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson has focused on the question of how Johnson amassed and wielded power. This magazine is replete with examples of successful senior managers who could not make the switch from ambitious executive to corporate leader because they did not know what to do with the power they had so expertly accumulated. The tension is as real in business as it is in politics. Amassing power requires ambition, a focused pragmatism, and a certain ruthlessness that is often at odds with the daring, idealistic vision needed to achieve great things with that power. The trouble is that the combination of the two skills is rare. No one can lead who does not first acquire power, and no leader can be great who does not know how to use that power.
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