Right Wisdom

I have started a leadership series in which we stroll through the decades of the 20th century and compare the events that took place during that decade with a leadership style. Yesterday we looked at the roaring twenties. A mostly positive and uplifting decade. Unfortunately today we will be looking at one of the more depressing decades of the 20th century. When the stock market crash occurred in October of 1929 it spun the nation into an economic depression that lasted most of the 1930s. The 1930s became known as the decade of "The Great Depression". Many people lost their jobs and homes. To compound matters the nation's farmlands saw a major drought that lasted half the decade. This drought became know as the "dust bowl", it destroyed farms and lives. On a global scale the rise of a dictatorship in Germany occurred when Adolf Hitler took office. When he invaded Poland it started World War II. Franklin Roosevelt signed the New Deal (A bail out) to combat th...