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A Good Point On Leadership

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Smart Things Said By Smart People

Instead of appointing a special prosecutor, what if the president had just called in his top people in the beginning of all this and said, “Folks, we have a problem here. I need to know who’s been talking to Bob Novak and I need to know today by the end of business?” That’s what presidents used to do, and they’re usually pretty good at finding out when they really want to know.

Not many people had the nerve to lie to Lyndon Johnson when he looked them in the eye, and Richard Nixon figured out early on who Deep Throat was, and now we know from Woodward and Bernstein that on that one Nixon was right.

I’ve gotta say, if this would have happened at my job that’s what our founder would have done.

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Leadership Training Says:
February 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Can I subscribe to this blogs feed? Samuel in Tampa

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