Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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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.
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
The American people want to have trust in their leaders.
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
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