Crossposted from the PeoplesView
An article I read almost a couple of years ago is probably one of the best I have read on dissecting the many attribute of President Barack Obama's leadership which I will get to in a minute.
However, one of the most manufactured characterization of the President's attributes by a Dailykos Front Pager is by far the most amateur analysis I have come to read in dissecting the President's leadership style and on how to influence the President. You can go ahead and read the essay, Influencing President Obama is easy, at your leisure but I will just get to the conclusion of how the best minds of a Dailykos Front Pager thinks:
1) President Obama is an institutionalist. He isn't by any means a reformer
2) President Obama has no political ideology. There isn't anything President Obama believes in so rigidly that he's willing to murder someone over it. No deep core beliefs.
3) President Obama doesn't like politics. What Obama likes is governing. Making decisions. Conducting negotiations. Organizing things. He's a doer of stuff, but not any particular stuff.
[and]
...if you want to influence Obama:
1. You'll need to get yourself in a high position with some major clout from major institutions.
2. You'll need to not have any particular views that you're not willing to abandon in search of consensus.
3. You'll need to not have any political goals.
4. You'll need to operate in secret.
In other words, you need to be Tim Geithner.
Seriously?
President Obama is an institutionalist, has no political ideology or doesn't like politics?
I am cringing how gullible, narrow minded and irrelevant the DailyKos community has become as I see this talking point becoming the most recommended essay of a progressive community. What a joke! Do I need to say more?
Well, Norm Smallwood, in his article Judging Obama As A Leader dissects President Obama's leadership attributes to identify how it shapes and has shaped his success today and will during his Presidency.
Norm Smallwood writes:
A great deal has been written about the essential attributes of leadership, and there is a huge variety of opinion about what really counts. To combat this lack of consensus, my colleagues Dave Ulrich, Kate Sweetman and I synthesized the most important leadership research of the past four decades and identified five dimensions that are essential to world-class leadership. We call them the Leadership Code and describe them in our book, The Leadership Code. Using the code to analyze Obama's leadership attributes, we find that he's got all the right tools.
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