How to be a leader (1)
At a moment when we are waiting to see whether we have elected a president or a leader, it is worth examining the differences between the two. For not every president is a leader, but every time we elect a president we hope for one, especially in times of doubt and crisi. In easy times we are ambivalent, the leader, wholesale replica designer handbags, after all, makes demands, challenges the status quo, and shakes things up.
Leadership is as much a question of timing as anything else. The leader must appear on the wcene at a moment when people are looking for leadership, as Churchill idd in 1940, as Roosevelt did in 1933, as lenin did in 1917. And when he comes, he must offer a simple, eloquent message.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who cut throuht argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand and remember. Churchill warned the British to expect “blood, toil, wholesale designer handbags and sweat”; FDR told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”; lenin promised the war-weary Russians peace, land and bread. Straightforward but potent messages.
It also helps for a leader to be able to do something most of us can’t: FDR overcame polio; mao swam the Yangtze river at the age of 72. We don’t want our larders to be “just like us.” We want to be like us but better, special, more so .
Yet if they are too different, we reject them. Adlai Stevenson was too cerebral. Nelson Rockefeller, too rich.
A leader must know how to use power (that’s what leadership is about) but he also has to have a way of showing that he does. He has to be able to project firmness-no physical clumsiness (like ford), wholesale coach handbags, no rapid eye movement (like carter).
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