Colin Powell: "Leadership Is All About Followership"...

Colin Powell: "Leadership Is All About Followership"...
The Oklahoman | Jay F. Marks | March 22, 2006 at 09:11 AM

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell blended business with diplomacy Tuesday to describe the characteristics of good leaders.

The retired Army general detailed these qualities as he explained the United States' role in world affairs during a speech at Oklahoma City's Civic Center Music Hall.

... "Leadership is all about followership," Powell said.

Effective leaders are able to get the most out of the people following them, he said, by putting them in a position to succeed with the tools they need to do their job.

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Like little fake vials of anthrax powder?
Which you falsely claim are in someone else's possession?
Leadership! So simple really: it's a matter of props and myths.

When it comes to 'followership' - blindly following behind the incompetent, the untruthful, the stupendously ignorant without question -Powell knows whereof he speaks.

I'm not going any further describing this person because I don't want to get him/her in trouble, but my contact said that Powell was very good to his people at State and did what he could to make his department work and improve morale despite the Bush administration.

My contact also said that rank and file bureaucrats were not crazy about Albright and they absolutely can't stand Condi.

My contact also said that people of that level in government do not speak out against their leaders and for a high level official and military man like Powell to denounce Bush would be unheard of.

My own take on Powell is that if he believed that going into Iraq was the wrong thing to do, he should have distanced himself from Bush much earlier than he did even if it meant offering his resignation. They used him, he allowed himself to be used and he is an accomplice to the crime--if not one of its main perpetrators.

Leaders are good leaders when people follow them without feeling they have to, or without even knowing their being followers. There is no special skill required to be a follower. Anyone can do it. That, Colin, would be the difference between being a leader and a follower.

Idiot!
The Professor

I think he's a good man who didn't realize what a lair of snakes he was signing on with, and then was too slow in extricating himself.

Since he left office he has said a few things that indicate his opinion on this administration, but he has held his tongue from spilling the beans. I can only think there is one reason for that: He knows his family would be at risk if the NeoCons ever felt he might fully open his mouth.

He could have saved this country it's Bush induced march to suicide if he had the character to RESIGN instead of giving than damn UN Speech.

They may not have been able to pull off this whole fiasco if Powell bailed on them.

His conduct in this case was TREASONOUS.

-85% Jimmy