Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Memo to Obama: Beware of Technical Expertise

This is a critical time for Barak Obama. He has no more important task than picking personnel.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:12 AM | 2 Comments
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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Obama is already delivering losses

y favorite definition of leadership, the one I am really addicted to, is that leadership is disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:11 AM | 1 Comments
Tags: obama, clinton, leadership, emmanuel

Friday, November 7, 2008

When McCain Lost His Soul

Not that anyone cares, but it might be good to remember back in the summer when this campaign for the Presidency was a lot closer than it seemed on November 1. Pundits attribute McCain's sizable defeat to the swooning economy, but I think his downfall started back in late August, right before the convention, when the maverick in McCain gave way to the dark forces of win-at-all-costs.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:10 AM | Add the first comment!
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Leadership and Passion

Much has been made of Barak Obama's coolness under fire, his capacity for staying calm when attacked, rising above the fray, distancing himself, what we call Getting on the Balcony.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:08 AM | 2 Comments
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, biden, emotion, politics, dukakis, passion

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Leadership in a Crisis

In a crisis, what we WANT from people who are running the show is just two things. Be present and feel our pain. George W. Bush is not particularly good at either, but he has been better at it in the economic current crisis than he was after Katrina or 9/11. Rudy Giuliani is the master.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:07 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: leadership, bailout, crisis, rudy giuliani, gordon brown

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Commentators?

Why is it that the networks insist on partisan commentators spinning their analysis to suit their perspective? To the credit of the networks, they usually identify the party affiliation and activity of the Ed Rollins and Paul Belaga types.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:06 AM | Add the first comment!
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Friday, October 3, 2008

Scapegoating and the Bailout Blame Game

Palin's repeated references last night to "Wall Street greed and corruption" was just the latest in a string of diversionary finger-pointing and blaming.

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Authored by Gregory Maher at 10:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, courage, adaptive leadership, palin, politics, bailout

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Obama and the race vote…..

Big conversation topic these days among my liberal friends is about what "those people" will do when they get into the privacy of the voting booth and no one else will know if they cannot vote for an African-American for President. I became a Republican in college because I thought my liberal Democratic friends were the least tolerant people I had ever met.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:05 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, leadership, mccain, politics, bailout, election, congress, republican

Monday, September 29, 2008

What a Day for Leadership!

So, in the roll call vote 2/3 of the Republicans and 40% of the Democrats took the no-risk route and voted their politics today. So, predictably, Obama and McCain blamed each other and each other's party.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:04 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: obama, adaptive leadership, mccain, politics, bailout, election

Sunday, September 28, 2008

On Being Irrelevant…..

It is personally painful to watch the Republicans in the House of Representatives trying so hard to make themselves players in the bailout saga. When you are in the legislative minority, without the procedural power to throw sand in the gears that their counterparts in the Senate enjoy, and your Party controls the Executive Branch, you are virtually irrelevant to the business of legislating.

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Authored by Marty Linsky at 10:03 AM | Add the first comment!
Tags: mccain, bailout, election, republican

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