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Panelists Richard Haass, Ronald Heifetz and Shirley Williams and moderator Richard Neustadt are all past or current members of the Kennedy School faculty. They addressed an audience of about 200 at an Institute of Politics forum titled "Leadership...
Real leadership is measured not so much by the number of followers one has as by one's ability to persuade, listen and be persuaded, said Haass, former director of the National Security Council and special assistant to President Bush...
...information, not a decision maker," an opinion echoed by U.S. legislators about his Capitol Hill performances. A subordinate likens Christopher's role on the top-level principals committee, which has met frequently to set policy on Bosnia, to that of a "good fielder, lousy hitter" -- sound but uninspired. Richard Haass, a National Security Council official under Bush, argues that the fundamental problem is Christopher's lawyerly world view: "He's a mediator, used to a game with rules. He believes that if you look hard enough, you will find a common denominator out of which you can gradually construct some...
...performance just for show, while the real deal is done behind closed % doors. CNN's reach makes it a kind of worldwide party line, allowing leaders to conduct a sort of conference call heard not only by the principals but also by their constituents across the planet. Says Richard Haass, a National Security Council aide to President Bush: "You end up hearing statements for the first time, not in diplomatic notes, but because you see a Foreign Minister on the TV screen. By television, I really mean CNN. It has turned out to be a very important information source...
...Prof. Richard Haass and his pro-George Bush colleagues here at Harvard agree that the country is substantially "better off" now, when homeless people are sleeping against the walls of Harvard Yard, what can we expect by way of effective and humane public policy from this or any federal administration? Derek Bok, in several letters to the Harvard community over the last couple of years, has focused on the moral effect of institutions of higher learning, with the conclusion that practice (by administrators and faculty) is more important than precept in influencing the moral behavior of students...