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It was perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the Torah. Ten of the spies whom Moses had sent to spy out the land came back with a report calculated to demoralize the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large \u2026 We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are \u2026 The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height \u2026 We seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.\u201d (Num. 13: 27-33)<\/span><\/p>\n

This was nonsense, and they should have known it. They had left Egypt, the greatest empire of the ancient world, after a series of plagues that brought that great country to its knees. They had crossed the seemingly impenetrable barrier of the Red Sea. They had fought and defeated the Amalekites, a ferocious warrior nation. They should have known that the people of the land were afraid of them, not the other way round. <\/span><\/p>\n

And so it was, as Rahab told the spies sent by Joshua forty years later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Only Joshua and Caleb among the twelve showed leadership. They told the people that the conquest of the land was eminently achievable because God was with them. The people did not listen. But the two leaders received their reward. They alone of their generation lived to enter the land. More than that: their defiant statement of faith and their refusal to be afraid shines as brightly now as it did thirty-three centuries ago. They are eternal heroes of faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the fundamental tasks of any leader from president to parent is to give people a sense of confidence: in themselves, in the group of which they are a part, and in the mission itself. A leader must have faith in the people he or she leads, and inspire that faith in them. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter of the Harvard Business School writes in her book Confidence, \u201cLeadership is not about the leader, it is about how he or she builds the confidence of everyone else.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Confidence, by the way, is Latin for \u201chaving faith together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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