In the late sixties a self-made CEO was troubled by the plight of American POWs in North Vietnam, so he chartered a plane, packed it with medicine, mail, and meals, and tried to have it delivered to imprisoned servicemen. In the eighties, he became disturbed by what he considered rampant mediocrity in public schools, so he pushed a massive education bill through the Texas Legislature. By the nineties, he’d gotten hot under the collar about incompetence in Washington, so he ran twice for the White House.Ross Perot wasn’t always successful—his presidential bids failed, of course, and that plane full of provisions never actually reached the POWs—but his red-tape-be-damned, DIY approach resonated widely. By not waiting around for others to fix a problem, he embodied something…
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