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Barack Obama: a leader, not a boss

By Craig from San Francisco, CA - Feb 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am EST

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Days ago, I figured out why I'm drawn to Barack, heart and mind.

Pretty much all of us work for a boss, sometimes one who's a pretty good manager, but we do what they want since they're the boss.

A good boss or manager can get a job done, but can't motivate more than a relative handful of people at a time, and that doesn't get big jobs done.

Recently, I've developed the unfortunate habit of reading history, seeing that now and then there've been people who moved entire nations. They're usually competent managers, but have some elusive additional ability that makes then what we call leaders.

That includes JFK, Lincoln, Elizabeth I, Victoria, Gandhi, Churchill, and a short list of others that you know.

We need to restore American values to the White House, and to enlist all Americans in that effort; we want to be the good guys again. That takes a leader, and that means Barack Obama.

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By Ron Amundson Feb 26th 2008 at 11:56 am EST

I think thats why the ability to inspire a compelling vision that folks can rally around is so critical, whether it be in Washington, or in business.

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By barackinginpa Apr 3rd 2008 at 9:45 pm EDT

is going to be a new style of corporate/common/community-cen tered decision making.

If there are 3 major dynamics of the social process, i.e. Economic, Political, and Cultural, what we're seeing a new kind of culture being formed, in which the shared/corporate/common decision-making process is being re-defined.

Rather than being top-down, it's participatory. And that's because the political dynamic is being informed by the cultural dynamic, rather than being dominated and prostituted by the economic dynamic gone gorilla-size!

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