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It’s a leader’s job to be skeptical of grand schemes. Sorry, that’s
a conservative leader’s job. It is a liberal leader’s job to be
skeptical that grand schemes will work as intended. You have to guide
and goad and be careful.
And this president wasn’t. I think part of the reason he wasn’t
careful is because he sort of lives in words. That’s been his whole
professional life—books, speeches. Say something and it magically
exists as something said, and if it’s been said and publicized it must
be real. He never had to push a lever, see the machine not respond,
puzzle it out and fix it. It’s all been pretty abstract for him, not
concrete. He never had to stock a store, run a sale and see lots of
people come but the expenses turn out to be larger than you’d expected
and the profits smaller, and you have to figure out what went wrong and
do better next time.
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Source: Peggy Noonan, "Low-Information Leadership," Peggy Noonan's Blog at The Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2013
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