"what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, th

"what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying colors. They were, as one of them put it herself, “excellent sheep.”" Sound observation. Hoop-jumping has it's place, yet leadership starts when the hoop isn't a hoop, but a flaming hole you have to climb. Leadership is demonstrating your understanding of risk, creating a plan others can follow and providing the necessary motivation to successfully execute.