old flyer

Five Leadership Lessons From Obama's First Month

On the most vital point in evaluating Obama's early leadership you blew it badly.In trying to link presidential leadership with that of corporations .You dislayed a complete misunderstanding of the demands on one who bears the awesome responsibilities of leading a nation. we are in a crisis of confidnce..Every individual who has an inch of paper or a minute of air time is emphasizing gloom and predicting disaster and corporate leadership is either joinining in the chorus or is bunkered down and mute.The people had no place to turn for encouragement as President Obama was over singing in the national dirge until hissomewhat lighter note in the last message to Congress.Obama is not the CEO of America Inc.he is the leader of a great nation ,a troubled nation at the moment ,but still the richest and most powerful on earth,FDR took office during the greatest depression ever and Winston Churchill saw his armies driven from Europe at Dunkirque in one of the greatest retreats in military history,These two great historical figures could have addresed their people with an inventory of woes but instead in words of magnificent power they uplifted their people and in the darkest hours of two nations gave those people hope and inspiration and a conviction of future victory.That is Presidential leadership and Obama has yet to achieve it. For the good of the whole country and it's people I pray he finds within himself the abilities to so lead.