Why do people not take initiatives? Why people run away from responsibilities? Why don't people want to be leaders? The creative world and especially the history of breakthrough ideas suggest that initiative, not experience, is the best indicator of future achievement. Ideas require the bold initiative to gain traction. Yet, most American workers aren’t interested in becoming managers. At least, that’s what a new CareerBuilder survey seems to suggest. Of the thousands surveyed, only about one-third of workers (34%) said they aspire to leadership positions – and just 7% strive for C-level management (the rest said they aspire to middle-management or department head roles) And clearly, the point of writing this article has been triggered by a sequence of events that baffled me this week as I and some other friends have been organising our School Leavers' Party. The sense of inaction of a few was comprehensible, after all, i...