Al Gore: From Failure to Leadership
October 15, 2007
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Al Gore’s deserves the honor of winning the Nobel Price. He has shown incredible leadership in his life and has truly focused our attention on the environment. Nobody can ignore his message today. And we crave a leader like him in the White House. The New York Times columnists write about it. Both Thomas Friedman and Bob Herbert are clearly pained by the comparison between Gore and Bush.
What happened to this man who was defeated by the Supreme Court in 2000? Well, much has been said about the reason he lost the election (not the popular vote, mind you) and much of it reflects his leadership at the time. My impression of him then: He made becoming president too personal, a reflection of him, rather than about a cause that he could champion. He was so desperate to become president that he did anything at all, and the most important thing he did was he lost himself. The warm, funny, smart, brilliant Al Gore that we know today, was invisible in the election campaign, where he was a wooden robot so high on caffeine that he induced motion sickness by watching him.
What changed was what gave him his brilliance. Gore could have become seriously depressed and told the world to you know what. But he didn’t. What he did do, was to return to himself and return to what he was about. He is all about the environment, has always been about the environment and continues to be about the environment. Some have argued that his leadership now has to do with greater self-confidence. I think that that is insufficient. He is a leader now, because he is himself and all about what he is about. He returned to himself.
Leaders know themselves. Leaders know what their life is about. That is the first requirement of leadership.
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