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Many leaders change their objectives and style over the course of their careers.
Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s foreign-policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.
The transformational objectives and inspirational style of a leader like Mahatma Gandhi in India or Nelson Mandela in South Africa can significantly influence outcomes in fluid political contexts, particularly in developing countries with weakly structured institutional constraints.
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman developed transformational objectives only in response to external events after they entered office.
A leader with transformational objectives faces better odds, and an inspirational style is more likely to find responsive followers and to make their role more relevant.
Whether they are transformational or incremental in their objectives, leaders need certain soft- and hard-power skills to be effective.
Among the soft-power skills are emotional intelligence (self-control and the ability to use emotional cues to attract others); vision (an attractive portrait of the future that balances ideals, objectives, and capabilities); and communication (the ability to use words and symbols to persuade both an inner circle and a broader audience).
Above all, effective leadership requires contextual intelligence and an intuitive diagnostic ability that helps a leader understand change, set objectives, and align strategies and tactics accordingly.
The first, paradoxically, is the recent shift in US rhetoric away from a focus on American jobs to the explicitly Sinophobic objectives of “containing” China and preventing it from developing into a technological power that could challenge US global hegemony.
With that, it becomes more difficult to pursue longer-term policy objectives, which merely adds further uncertainty about the precise path of European economic and financial integration.
Although such a tax might advance environmental objectives by bringing about a reduction in emissions, it raises international competitiveness issues.
Likewise, Israel accuses Hezbollah – together with Iran – of recent efforts to attack Israeli objectives, including the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.
Long-term economic and social considerations almost inevitably collide with short-term political objectives, particularly for populists.
Likewise, infrastructure investments should have explicit equity-related objectives.
Reading between the lines, the authors think little of the sectoral model, but their anticlimactic conclusion is only that “it looks worthwhile to regularly conduct assessments of the functioning of the supervisory architecture in each jurisdiction in the light of prevailing objectives.”
After discovering that mathematics could be applied to understanding the physical world, a small group of natural philosophers turned toward experimental empiricism with practical objectives.
While specific objectives have changed, the overarching belief that scientific knowledge transforms people’s lives – as cultural, educational, and institutional factors converge with technological and industrial dynamics – has remained strong.
But Rowhani’s presidency can hardly be expected to change Iran’s strategic objectives.
The mind-set of these people is geared to achieving their objectives without regard to legal niceties.
Specifically, they need a transparent framework that enables them more easily to share information about progress on their long-term economic, social, and environmental objectives.
In order to achieve their growth objectives, companies must fundamentally rethink the way they integrate technology and use natural resources in their productive processes.
We had our own commercial objectives and wanted to build a world-class financial services firm in China.
Yet even developed countries have relied on industrial policy to achieve national economic and competitive objectives.
To advance these objectives, an international coalition is pushing for a Framework Convention on Global Health, aimed at fostering good governance for health at the local, national, and global levels.
Now, boards and executive teams must consider carefully how to balance their short-term commercial objectives not only with their long-term business prospects, but also with their fundamental ethical obligations.
Importantly, rich countries are committed to working with the poorest countries to meet these objectives.
The key is to pursue a comprehensive approach – one that recognizes the fundamental linkages among programs and objectives, takes advantage of proven solutions, and adopts a long-term perspective.
For this reason, the US is likely to press India not to contemplate forceful retaliation that could undermine America’s objectives in Afghanistan.
Indeed, Putinism is demonstrating how to manipulate the rules of parliamentary democracy – by which all of Europe’s political parties have been forced to play since WWII’s end – to serve authoritarian objectives.
But there is no reason to believe that Obama was being disingenuous about his objectives.
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