Communication would be right at the top of most people’s lists of defining skills for Leaders and Managers. Newsweek’s piece on Obama a week ago “The Illustrated Man” (sub-titled ‘How Can Obama Fight the Lies’) explores the unpleasant political tolls and toils many executives must regularly cope with and talked about getting balance right, a theme central to this blog. It included a captivating quote from that legendary rhetorician Mario Cuomo…
“Mario Cuomo liked to say that ‘you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.’ Obama has taken Cuomo’s maxim too much to heart. He needs to reconnect to the poetry and hope and political artistry that brought him this far.”
Leaders campaign in poetry; Managers govern in prose. Both together communicate a vital direction with viable directions.
