Leadership Material
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Leadership Material Ioseb Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili started it, just over a century ago. The son of a poor cobbler in a provincial backwater, his academic career ended with expulsion from a theological seminary. Undeterred, he recognized that his ambitions would be well served if his persona reflected one of the prominent measures of national prowess, so he moved to the center of power and changed his name to Joseph Stalin; borrowing from the Russian “stal,” or “steel.” For much of the 20th century, it was the production or control of materials that most critically defined the extent of national power. As the century dawned, steel output was the most important measure. At later times, access to “critical materials,” such as chromium, has been a matter over which wars have been fought, or at least it has determined the strategies of one or another party in the major wars. During the Cold War, one of MRS BULLETIN/SEPTEMBER 2001
the most important numbers sought by spies on either side was the uranium demand of their respective opponents, since that was the most direct measure of the number of atomic bombs that they
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