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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (603121)	8/12/2004 4:25:17 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

My point is that clarity is not the singular attribute you want to call out in a leader. All leaders need some ambiguity at some point in their decision making process. Kerry calls it 'complexity'. Hitler believed that his clarity was an attribute. He was credited with stopping a military disaster early in the war with Russia, during the winter of 41-42, by using that clarity to refuse his forces requests to retreat. Since it worked, he assumed that clarity was a virtue, and never would allow others to introduce 'complexity' to his decision making. Fortunately for the world, this flaw was doom.