What Qualities Do You Want in A World Leader? | It’s A Question Of Balance 18th June

Broadcast on 20 June 2015 on KSCO AM 1080, KSCO 104.1 FM, KOMY AM 1340, and KSCO.com Live Stream.

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Out And About – Conversations with People on the Street about Questions That Matter: What Qualities Do You Want in A World Leader?

Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.” John F. Kennedy stated that “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” Jack Welch from GE advised “Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.” What qualities do you want in a world leader? Historically we seemed to have valued more the ‘hard’ qualities of leadership, for example strength and control, but perhaps today we prefer a less paternalistic and more partnership approach. So do world leaders today need different qualities than they did in the past? Henry Ford stated “working together is success”. Perhaps consensus-building could provide more solutions or is ‘might is right’ still the best way forward? Are different qualities needed to be the leader of the United States than other countries? Is there still resistance in the US to having a woman as leader?

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