One small cloud can blot out the sun.

This week in feedback to your ethical analyses of various leaders, your professor has pointed out how “one small cloud can blot out the sun.”  This is a teaching of the Italian political genius Machiavelli.  It means we can do everything right; one slip-up (1%) can cause people to forget what we have done right (99%).  Think President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.  Leaders to establish and keep credibility must do the right thing 100% of the time or risk having that misstep (small cloud or 1%) blot out the many, many things they have done right (sun, 99%).