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...even offshore balancing will only limit China’s power, not erase it. China still leverages its sway over North Korea to keep the West anxious, and its recent veto on a major Asian development bank project also illustrates its might...

Author: By Nicholas Tatsis | Title: Managing China? | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Physical traits such as physique, intellectual traits such as IQ, and personality traits such as extroversion have been extensively examined by researchers, but with poor explanatory results. Tests have shown there is no leadership gene. While studies might find a certain trait to be significant, there always seems to be considerable evidence that fails to confirm that trait’s importance. Context is often more important than traits. The athletic child who is the natural leader on the playground may lose that dominant position when the group returns to a well structured classroom. For example, in January 1940, Winston...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye | Title: Nature and Nurture in Leadership | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...have always felt that the mark of a good education is its capacity to raise more questions than it answers. Harvard opens our minds, broadens our outlook, and inspires our curiosity. Where once we might have been content to ask and answer a question such as, “Does global warming exist?”, today we question the merits of so-called “clean coal,” debate the costs of a gas tax vs. a cap-and-trade system, and view “organic” labels with healthy skepticism. Each broad question...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Questions and Answers | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...action, Bush did not seek opposing viewpoints or consider all of the questions necessary to arrive at the right answer. When he felt he had an answer, however, Bush defended that answer with great conviction. He was “the decider,” and while you might not have agreed with where he stood, you always knew where that...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Questions and Answers | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...rally organized by student leaders to voice displeasure with poor communication from the deans, message discipline was not the order of the day. Were we upset about not being able to eat hot breakfast during the week? Was our outrage directed at our beloved dining hall workers, who might have hours cut as a result of the changes? Or were we simply angry about the fact that we heard about all these changes during the artificially stressful reading period...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn | Title: Restrained Contentment | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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