The article concerns one of the most important issues of our time – the problem of the quality of modern leaders’ thinking. Under conditions of historical challenges previously not observed, in terms of fundamental changes in the economy, socio-political, informational and other spheres, incommensurably with the circumstances of past ages, the dependence of all people from leaders’ decisions has increased. One of the reasons for the deficit of leaders, who think profoundly, are truly educated and are comprehensively developed, is narrowness (...) of thinking, poor philosophical culture, ignoring of the knowledge, verified by life, that philosophy has accumulated over the millennia of its existence in the context of various cultures and civilizations. (shrink)