LPA Foundation

Issues Forum: Leadership

Leadership

Leadership

Donald Trump’s Organizational Failure in Colorado Shows He’s Totally Unprepared to Be President

April 14, 2016

Donald Trump’s failure to win even a single GOP convention delegate from Colorado is important less for what it does to the overall delegate count in the GOP primary race and more for what it reveals about Trump and his campaign operation. Trump portrays himself as a master businessman who employs top experts to cut […]

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Leadership

Leadership

Trump Is No Reagan

February 22, 2016

Donald Trump’s attempts to burnish his conservative credentials by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan are wildly unconvincing. In his recent “Meet the Press” interview, Trump argued that his metamorphosis from left to right was akin to Reagan’s. He added that the late president was “somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. […]

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Leadership

Leadership

What Makes A Great President?

February 5, 2016

We moved to Washington from Rome early in 1977, and I worked at CSIS, then home to many luminaries of the Republican Establishment. There was a lot of talk about Ronald Reagan, running for the Republican presidential nomination, and most of that talk was anything but flattering. By and large the luminaries thought the California […]

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International Relations

International Relations

If You Want Good Leaders, Make Sure They’re Good Thinkers

December 3, 2015

Here’s a thought. Perhaps part of the reason the world seems to have gone haywire for America is that our nation’s leaders don’t think as well as they used to—that all our great thinking is behind us. The best prescription for fixing that may lie in how we prepare generals, diplomats and policymakers to lead. […]

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Leadership

Leadership

Leaderless

November 23, 2015

In his mem­oir, Le­on Pan­etta ar­gued that for all of Barack Obama’s strengths, he is miss­ing an es­sen­tial in­gredi­ent of lead­er­ship. He lacks “fire,” wrote Obama’s former CIA dir­ect­or and Pentagon chief. “The pres­id­ent re­lies on the lo­gic of a law pro­fess­or rather than the pas­sion of a lead­er.” Obama has proved Pan­etta right again […]

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