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...most well-meaning official must tread with heightened sensitivity to interest groups. Says Hahm Sung Deuk, an expert on presidential politics at Korea University in Seoul: "Korea needs a leader who can compromise, negotiate and be persuasive to govern completely effectively. Lee should be playing the role of the broker rather than the commander...
...When it works well, the provost’s office is convening people who want to collaborate—acting as an honest broker as people have different local needs, and then holding people accountable to make sure that larger parties don’t soak up all the resources,” Hyman said...
...campaigned there this past holiday weekend. There will actually be 55 delegates at stake, more than in most state primaries, so it won't be meaningless. And it will be unique, because Puerto Rican politics always are. "Politics is our national pastime," says Miguel Lausell, a commonwealther power broker who ran Ted Kennedy's Puerto Rico primary campaign in 1980, and now supports Clinton. "One thing you have to say about Puerto Ricans, we love to vote...
Somewhat surprisingly, Canada has been reluctant to acknowledge its newly minted status as an energy power broker. "We need to start acting like an OPEC-level player with an ability to change the world economy," says Ross Jacobs of Fort McMurray, a Liberal who was recently defeated in a bid to represent his district in Alberta's provincial legislature. "Canadians need to start thinking globally...
...continue to up the ante as the stakes in the game increase. Polaris Industries left the safety of its snowmobile niche to battle the Japanese in the ATV business and later took on the gang at Harley-Davidson in the motorcycle business. The Staubach Co., the commercial real estate broker, pushed to expand nationally before other tenant-rep firms did. Intuit faced down Microsoft twice, in the personal-financial-management-software business and in the small-business-accounting business. In each of these cases, competitors chose to play it safe and consolidate their winnings rather than double down...