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The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.