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SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...
...THAT THIS WEEK'S ISSUE ON leadership is in your hands, special-projects editor Barrett Seaman can get a good night's sleep. Ever since he started work on the package last summer, Seaman says, he has been waking up regularly at 4 a.m. "I worried about whether we had chosen the right people," he recalls. "I worried about how much we would miss the people we had to leave...
...staff members argued that the limit should be even higher, at age 50. People are living longer, they pointed out, and women who have children often don't come into their own until after their offspring become self-sufficient. "Finally, we decided to err on the side of youth," Seaman says. "To some extent, it was an arbitrary choice. But we wanted people who would be making a difference well into the next century...
What many of TIME's young leaders have in common is an ability to take their message to people of differing backgrounds and perspectives. "In this increasingly fragmented society, we found that people tend to lead from out of their groups," Seaman continues. "The leaders we chose seem to have the potential to reach out beyond those groups, to bridge the gaps that exist in our world." Are TIME's selections prophetic? "The thing of it is," said Seaman, "I won't know whether or not we have hit the mark for at least another 15 years." Given the quality...
SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...