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Think of this magnificent ship of state freighted with twenty-three millions of souls, and laden to the scuppers with the wealth of the world’s hopes, with a pilot at the helm--drunk!
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Mann uses a metaphor of a drunken pilot to illustrate the dangers of poor leadership.
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