Reply #8: my graduate degree is in Leadership... [View All]

[chill factor]

and I have held leadership positions in many organizations - business and education.

There is a huge difference between managers and leaders. (sorry, gcomeau, I would have used the term 'manager' rather than 'administrator.') Warren Bennis is a world-renowned trainer of leaders. He says,"Managers are people who do things right...but leaders are people who do the right thing." Leaders are vision-oriented, look to the horizon, and are capable of seeing the larger picture. Leaders are proactive rather than reactive. Albert Einstein observed,"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we are at when we created them."

Senator Obama is a leader, Hillary is a manager.(and she has not done a very good job as even a manager given the state of her campaign.)
Senator Obama is vision-oriented, Hillary focuses on what is good for her, not Americans as a whole.
Senator Obama can look beyond the here and now and focus on the horizon of new ideas; Hillary looks at today and has no conception of tomorrow.
Senator Obama is proactive; Hillary is reactive.
Senator Obama recognizes that in order to solve our problems we must think out-of-the-box, Hillary is stuck in the same level of thinking.

T. E. Lawrence wrote a stirring poem about vision:
All men dream; but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds
Awake to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
That they make act on their dreams with open
eyes to make it possible.

Senator Obama is a dreamer of the day; he can make things possible.