Posts Tagged "political leader"
Congress May Not Deserve To Be Hired Again…But You Do!
It is not news that the public’s approval of the job Congress is doing is dismally low. Up slightly from its near single digit low-point the latest Gallup poll has it at a whopping 17 percent. Despite the pathetic performance review, at least 80 percent of those currently serving will be re-elected this November, based on historic averages. Why do we keep re-electing people we don’t believe are doing a good job? Like any employee who is slacking on the job and escapes the pink slip to return another day to collect a paycheck, we can’t blame the workforce for showing-up with a lackluster work ethic for which we keep paying them. (This is not to say that...
Read MoreThe Era of Compromise is Over
by: Kathleen Schafer, Founder of Leadership Connection With the midterm elections safely behind them, elected officials now come to the most difficult part of their adventure—leading and making good on all of those campaign promises. An election is never an easy endeavor and the dirty little secret is that the real work begins after victory is declared. The challenge before the next Congress is no different from the challenges previous Congresses faced; the test will whether or not they are truly capable ofleading in a different way. If they don’t, they too might be facing unemployment in 2012. With a chagrinned Obama and an emboldened Republican Party, the talk of...
Read MoreUnderstanding 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...
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