I agree with your overall thesis here; I think most people would. But leadership doesn’t always translate from a direct path. I produced Asian art (noh theater, Chinese opera, kabuki, etc.) for years — and did it very well — though I never practiced or studied any of it formally. It’s more routinely a case of both/and, not either/or. And I hope we haven’t come to a place where we’re objectively and commodiously comparing someone like Betsy DeVos with Margaret Spellings. That’s like comparing apples to… termite droppings. All this is to say, lots of good points in here, and they all need to be said and read — thank you for sharing!