Word: tactfulness
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Summers knew he had to make some changes before taking on a high-profile cabinet level position, and Rubin’s treatment worked wonders. According to journalists who covered him at the time, Summers underwent a dramatic transformation, coating his famously bold personality with a keen sense of tact and thoughtfulness. Murray calls Summers the most political Treasury secretary ever, pointing out that he is the only man to hold the job in recent memory who did not make any major public blunders...
...times, pursued these noble goals with an undiplomatic lack of tact, especially given that he speaks with the name of this university behind him. And in the case of his recent remarks on women, he may have negatively impacted two of Harvard’s major strengths—its image and its ability to attract top academics...
Nonetheless, Bush would have us believe that sensitivity and tact are now all the rage at the White House. Condoleeza Rice told the senators at her recent confirmation hearings that “the time for diplomacy is now.” Apparently 2001, when Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol instead of working with other nations to improve it, was not a good time for diplomacy. Nor was it the time for diplomacy, evidently, when Bush enraged the world community by pulling the U.S. out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Then there was March 2003, when Bush abruptly decided...
...days after Summers’ remarks made national headlines, several Harvard psychologists have weighed in on their validity, with some rallying to Summers’ defense and others lamenting his lack of tact...
...Lacking tact on sensitive subjects is not a new problem for Summers. We hardly need mention his past troubles with members of Harvard’s once vaunted African American Studies Department, now much weaker than it was when he came to Harvard. We respect Summers’ determination to engage in academic debate, but he must always make the interests of Harvard the top priority...