Word: gergen
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Value strength of character over brainpower in public leadership, former presidential advisor David Gergen urged a 550-member audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) ARCO Forum last night...
Described by IOP Director David Pryor as "a man with an incomparable life experience," Gergen, currently a professor of public service and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, has served as advisor to four presidents...
...Gergen is also the author of the recent New York Times bestseller Eyewitness to Power. The models of leadership in his book were the focus of last night's speech, entitled "The Essence of Power: From Nixon to Clinton...
...wrote this book in the conviction that we could very well be at the dawn of a new golden age, with the power to bring enormous good into the world," Gergen told his audience...
...David Gergen, who in one way or another has served every president from Nixon to Clinton, offers a shrewd, balanced look at Nixon in his new book, "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership." Gergen describes Nixon's mysterious bright side/dark side personality - a bully and political crook, much given to anti-Semitic rant, who at the same time was a visionary in foreign policy (China and all of that), far more progressive in domestic matters than anyone remembers, and, before self-destructing, "among the best of modern presidents...