How to find a good leader
How to find a good leader
We go to the polls and we look for leaders. What we want? What a voter told Bret Baier a week ago, live since the election campaign: someone she can cheer for. She was so American, half hopeful, half melancholy.
When people have real leaders, there is a sense of security: someone reliable is in charge. When most do not feel that, there is a sense of restlessness, of nervousness that leaks outward and downward. The United States is never at peace, it is not our style, but there is a greater sense of strength and less frantic for the last horror, when you feel that there are strong people in charge.
Suddenly there are many new books on leadership. I asked Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the simple but academic "Leadership: in turbulent times", why. "Because we feel the absence of leadership now, not only in the president but in Congress, the inability to meet and do things." When something is missing, try to define exactly what it is to be able to find it. We feel "a longing for union" and we wonder what political figures could help put the nation in a common direction.
Ms. Goodwin asks questions in her book: "Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect leadership growth? ", And suggests answers through profiles of leaders under pressure. She focuses on personal qualities. Leaders assume responsibility for fundamental decisions, transcend personal vendettas, try all the ways to commit themselves. It tells me that a good leader has "an ambition for oneself that becomes an ambition for something greater". Leaders remind us that we are citizens, "part of the history of the United States," not simply anxious spectators. "At every moment of our turbulent times it was not just the leader who was present, it was the American people."
In his new magisterial "War Presidents," Michael Beschloss notes that since their founding, presidents "have led the American people to major wars about once in a generation." Too often they have "taken the power to launch major conflicts almost by their own authority." The founders would be "amazed and disgusted" that "the life or death of much of the human race now depends on the character of the single person who is the President."
Mr. Beschloss tells me that his thoughts are directed to the leadership qualities that Americans should demand in electing candidates for that office: probity, judgment and "great empathy" for those Americans who fight and endure our wars. "Lincoln demanded that a new military cemetery be located where he could see him often, so that he would face with pain the terrible results of the decisions he was making."
I add these thoughts about political leadership (and "he" includes "she"):
A leader is someone who, in the first place, means that, and you can say it. He sincerely holds the opinions he defends: He is serious. Promoting them is your project and purpose.
The ideas he defends are not simply policy points in a matrix of problems. They are held together by a central central intention. The new nation called America will survive and prosper while maintaining its freedoms. The union must endure. The Cold War will be won, and we will win it. The intention springs from a general but discernible political philosophy.
Politicians who can not convert points into an image are not artists, but pointillistas failed. They do not present a complete image. In the end, everything is just points. Nobody has voted for a long time for a point.
Great leaders are capable of defending the things they believe in. They can defend the case. They can make me think together with them, logically, from point A to point B and beyond. His words are not emotional, since politicians tend to be now in an attempt to make a sated audience feel something. (And also because they are confused about what eloquence is, they think it means fantasy). When leaders trust logic and fact, voters do feel something: gratitude for the implicit respect and a feeling of warmth to be a member of a community of thought and belief.
Eloquence in political leaders is desirable but not necessary. Too much is made of it, even when the real thing disappears. It's good if you can present the case in a way that is memorable, and that the voters can have in their minds. FDR and Reagan were great and eloquent. But Dwight Eisenhower led the US forces during World War II, administered the early days of the Cold War and built the interstate highway system. However, listening to him talk was like breaking through pillow fights for children: a lot of noise but nothing that would make an impression. its behavior They were eloquent.
Good leaders live in the real world. Do not insist on great ideologies that can crush over their heads. They know the facts and work within them. They respect reality.
A leader is aware that he is the object of many eyes. This gives him the responsibility to act in a certain way, respecting his own dignity and his. Even if you are not in the mood, you must respect the presentation standards. The children are watching and taking signals. That means that the future is watching.
A leader not only tries to survive by himself, to cling to power. However, a leader always tries to survive. Good leaders are survivors: that is part of how they show loyalty to what they represent, by being there to defend it. How to survive? Change strategies and tactics but not principles. And admit that you're wrong, partly because it's refreshing. Politicians so rarely do it.
A serious leader is annoyed to have control of the facts. Leadership is not all air impulses, it is knowing local and national facts because you have studied and absorbed them. You did the work.
A good leader knows the difference between stubbornness and perseverance. When you are afraid of seeing yourself as if you had backed down, for yourself or for others, it is stubbornness. When you are willing to pay a price for where you are standing, every day, it is perseverance.
A clever leader knows what time it is. Look at each side and see what trend rises and falls. In that movement he spies openings. A politician fully alive to the signs and signals would have seen the significance, in 2010, of the great cry of the revolt in the town hall: "Keep the hands of your government out of my Medicare!" To the media it seemed hilarious: these stupid Republicans hate ObamaCare but love their rights. Democrats saw it as hypocrisy, Republican professionals as schizophrenia. Few saw it for what it was: a new republican populism was on the rise, one completely aligned with the rights of the big states that people felt they had earned.
When you, the voter, do not show up with candidates who look like real leaders, what do you do? Choose the closest to the ideal. Go back to the practical. Do with what you have, which is what we normally do.
Mr. Beschloss, in an email: "Choose a candidate whose values, heart and life experience you are comfortable with, so that you can feel confident about the vast majority of the political decisions you will make, if elected, of those who will never listen. . "
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