I'm doing an essay on leadership....

[aceupthepants]

I'm doing an essay on how leaders are made and not born. I need a few examples of people who had great lineages but didn't live up to their family name. Thanks.

[akishore]

George W Bush
haha

[TDouble]

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leaders are made and not born

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Wrong.

YSSC changing the topic of your paper. People either have it, or they don't: there is no middle ground.

[stabn]

jfk jr.

[aceupthepants]

Did jfk jr fail? As far as changing the paper I am way too far to change it and I could care less what is right, I am just trying to finish one more page. I was thinking about about someone in the business field who ruined a respectable company?

[JasonK]

Didn't JFK Jr. run a magazine or something? Obviously not the leader his relatives were, but still.

[stabn]

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Didn't JFK Jr. run a magazine or something? Obviously not the leader his relatives were, but still.

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Given his lineage i think i'd call that a failure. I don't think George was doing that well financially when he died.

His wiki quote on his career:

He spoke at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a New York City assistant district attorney from 1989 to 1993. In 1995, he founded George, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family. The magazine ceased publication shortly after Kennedy's death.

Is not very impressive. He was only 38 though, so maybe i'm not being fair.

[neuroman]

Louis XVI

also, try going through the Roman Emperors, there were quite a few bad ones so that should be fertile ground.

[JJSCOTT2]

There's a whole lot of worthless Kennedy's.

[DG_Knight]

The recent Ford family executives have been sub-par.