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Bill Clinton Was A Great Politician. Bill Clinton Loved A Fight. He Was Willing To Fight. But He Also Wanted To Be Loved. He Wanted To Be Admired.

The Dirty Little Secret Is That Both Houses Of Congress Are Irrelevant. ... America's Domestic Policy Is Now Being Run By Alan Greenspan And The Federal Reserve, And America's Foreign Policy Is Now Being Run By The International Monetary Fund [imf]. ...when The President Decides To Go To War, He No Longer Needs A Declaration Of War From Congress.

The Managers Of The Big Brands Have A Very Clear Responsibility. It's Attracting And Keeping Talented People In Order To Sustain And Build The Trustworthiness Of That Brand. There Is No Clearer Objective In The Economy. Your Economic Success Depends On Expanding And Building Your Economies Of Trustworthiness.

The Path To Success Used To Be Up And Through An Organization. Now The Path To Success Is Increasingly Through Self-promotion.

More And More, Leadership, Whether It's Profit Or Nonprofit, Is About Recruiting And Keeping Talented People. That's The Biggest Challenge. Yes, You've Got To Create Systems That Will Enable People Easily To Innovate Continuously; You've Got To Be A System-builder. But Finding And Keeping Geeks And Shrinks Is The Biggest Challenge. That Means Leaders Have Got To Be Salespeople, They've Got To Be Recruiters, And They've Got To Be Actively Able To Understand And Keep The Talent They Have. Leadership Is Courtship. That's What It's Becoming.