Good leadership is bedrock for transformation

Up to the 1800s, much of Switzerland was an extremely poor agrarian society just a bad potato harvest from starvation, exporting a large proportion of its most able-bodied men to the more prosperous and more powerful European states as mercenaries, often fighting each other as armed adversaries in the service of those foreign governments. That mercenary profession is, for instance, the origin of that most famous contemporary foreign military in the service of a foreign sovereign, the Vatican’s Swiss Guard.
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