Posts Tagged "election"
Understanding the Lesson No One Wants to Learn
By: Kathleen Schafer, Founder of Leadership Connection The 2010 midterm election will eventually become like many others in our nation’s history, relegated to a data point in the ebb and flow of political cycles—that is, unless our country has hit a point where it is no longer willing to tolerate radical extremism in disguise as leadership and mudslinging as a substitute for real-world solutions. What has become the greatest travesty of the early 21st Century is our collective failure to understand that the solutions to our problems do not come from either end of the spectrum, rather they come from a conscious desire to integrate the best that both sides have to...
Read MoreFind the Authentic Candidate and You’ll Have Found a Leader
Share By: Kathleen Schafer, Founding Principle-Leadership Connection Where have all the leaders gone? Voters ask this question frequently during an election cycle there is never a good answer. While there are many reasons for paucity of leadership coming out of Washington these days, a good one to examine during the mid-term elections is how most candidates get to Capitol Hill. Since the mid-1970’s, the professionalization of politics has become big business for the hoards of consultants that support their campaigns, and I should know, because for years I was one. Mirroring that consultant explosion has been the emergence of the parties’ campaign committees as the...
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