Fwd: [Vision2020] Leadership

[sean]

Rose,
I am trying to understand the points you make 
below.  Are you agreeing that 1) Lee exhibited 
laudable character traits (e.g., brave, gentle, 
generous, noble) or 2) that those are traits we 
would desire in community leaders?

Once again I do not see the questions posed being 
addressed.  While you may be employing a laudable 
tactical strategy for not confronting an 
aggressor, you might consider whether it benefits 
public discourse to never address the subject 
being set out for discussion.

Your paraphrase misses (maligns?) the questions I 
posed.  If someone wishes to address them it 
would be worth rereading my first post, and doing 
so sans the lens of pre-judgement.  You may have 
heard the adage about parachutes and minds having 
some similar functional traitsŠ

s

>
>Visionaries:
>
>The question has been asked (paraphrased) what 
>failure of leadership did Robert E. Lee exhibit 
>that would preclude him for being an excellent 
>choice for the subject of a leadership seminar. 
>Setting aside his ability as a tactician or 
>strategist, which seems to me to have no 
>relevance in the daily life of Moscow business 
>folks - unless, unbeknownst to the community the 
>Pullman Chamber has declared war on the Moscow 
>Chamber and even as I type are slinking over the 
>Palouse to lay siege to our fair town - it seems 
>to me that the single most important element in 
>leadership is judgment.
>
>I am clear that Lee's judgment to fight to 
>defend a way of life - that benefited few (and 
>those mightily) while exploiting millions of 
>others is not an exemplary example of clear 
>thinking.  Or, as I would argue, Lee's 
>thinking is transparent, and that is why many 
>Visionaries are objecting to his glorification.
>
>The laudatory character traits i.e. brave, 
>gentle, generous, noble, character in defeat 
>listed by "S." fall by the wayside when one 
>considers the human cost of Lee's desire to sit 
>at Arlington, sip mint juleps and listen to his 
>wife whine (a skill in which she apparently 
>showed considerable leadership herself.)  Do you 
>call a man brave, gentle, generous and noble who 
>owns and exploits other human beings?  I don't.
>
>Rose Huskey

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Thanks,
s


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