I am flipping through the survey of corporate leadership in The Economist (“Tough at the Top,” October 25, 2003). Much of it is about leadership in general, as the boss of a big company is very like a head of a small country. An entire section of the survey is dedicated to the age-old question: are leaders born or made? “Surprisingly often,” Manfred Kets de Vries, a psychologist turned business guru, is quoted as saying, “leaders seem to have a determined mother and a remote or absent father.” I nod, thinking of my parents and myself. But then I nod again, thinking of my two wives and our three children. They have a leg up!