It’s never easy to decide to stop pursuing a strategy. Americans got a reminder of that in President Obama’s speech last week on Afghanistan; it was dispiriting to hear him describe the extended timetable required to remove even just the incremental troops who went in as the surge. But at least Obama did manage to make a decision to scale back. Many leaders faced with a strategy that isn’t working don’t get that far.
Good Leaders Acknowledge What Can’t Be Done
It’s never easy to decide to stop pursuing a strategy. Americans got a reminder of that in President Obama’s speech last week on Afghanistan; it was dispiriting to hear him describe the extended timetable required to remove even just the incremental troops who went in as the surge. But at least Obama did manage to […]
June 28, 2011
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