Word: leadership
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...Baker are convinced that he is. But Democrats have grown used to the old Kennedy ploy of keeping a high profile and then backing away. Nonetheless, many of them are eager for his candidacy, and a lot of their eagerness is based on dismay over Carter's bland leadership. "In New York," said one top Democratic leader, "I could raise a million dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even if Kennedy doesn't give the word, some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential state...
...next pontificate, however, many Catholics now appear to be looking for more decisive leadership. "Whoever the Pope is, he'll have to take some stronger positions, even if some are on the 'right,' " says a leader of the left, Spain's lay theologian Enrique Miret Magdalena. If, as many observers argue, this is a time to turn, the question remains: In which direction? The overarching issue in Roman Catholicism today is cohesion, or?to use an old-fashioned term?authority. It is a sign of the difficulties facing the next Pope that Catholic pundits differ widely on how authority should...
...should be judicious and flexible in the manner of contemporary leadership, exercising his authority not by issuing decrees but by giving reasons; not by commanding but by inspiring; not by making lonely decisions in isolation but by wrestling for common consensus in open dialogue. In all he should be the guarantor of freedom in the church...
...should give up the principle of centralism in the church, revise the system of nunciatures and renew the Curia not only externally and organizationally, but in the spirit of the Gospel, granting leadership positions to different nationalities and also to different mentalities, to the aged and to the young, to men and to women...
Both groups seem to have benefited. Each program participant has had about seven job interviews, and offers are already coming in. "They are strong person- alities with leadership qualities," observes William Machever of Sun Chemical. "This kind of wasted talent is a disaster for the United States." Adds Morton Darrow of the Prudential Insurance Co., "A corporation today needs people with a greater sensitivity to the world...