Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike his brother, who campaigned primarily for a refreshed national leadership, Bob Kennedy sought publicly to invigorate American political and social thought. Like many Republicans, he questioned the efficacy of a burgeoning federal bureacracy. In the same breath, though, he infuriated the G.O.P., insisting that renovated, upgraded state and local government would have to take up any slack. His seemingly conservative outlook on federalism was shaped by a liberal goal--government-backed social and economic justice...
...gotta dose of id diff, take a whiff, whacha gonna do, put me in the zoo?" Prescription: "Two years at the front will make a man of you, give you a sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...
Certainly Harvard Faculty members agree that such a large body as the Faculty (about 700 members) cannot operate with out leadership, and that it is necessary for the Dean to hold the power he does. But it is essential that the Faculty and Corporation are willing to be led; the amount of confidence which they place in the Dean's hands depends on how he uses his power. The ability to gauge correctly the Faculty's temperature and to act accordingly to the gauge is what, in addition to his purely managerial skill, determines whether the Dean will have...
...worst economic paralysis in its peacetime history and cries for his resignation echoed in the streets of every major French city and town, that claim seemed destined, along with his once-proud Fifth Republic, for the dustbin of history. But last week, summoning all his genius for leadership, De Gaulle once more commanded the French people to heed his will for France. Astonishingly, once again they listened...
...tribute both to De Gaulle's courageous leadership and to France's good sense that the country now had the opportunity to seek those solutions not at the barricades, but by democratic process in a climate of civil peace...