L EAD FOR P URPOSE could not do to what they could do. Right now, that thinking was to focus on the immediate future. The vice president did what all good leaders facing a crisis, or any serious problem, must do: Give the group a reason to believe. He did not dispense false hope, but he gave them something more powerful: purpose. When a group has purpose, its members will work together; they will pull together to make things happen. Purpose is the guiding beacon of every successful organization. · · · · · · · The beauty of the American management model is that it is based on action. That is why the model is emulated throughout the world: Americans know how to get things done. But sometimes getting things done happens at the expense of forethought. In their book The India