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LEADERSHIP 101


Julie and I have been watching The Crown-Season 4 on Netflix.

In addition to its focus on the Windsor family and all their insecurities, it presents a textbook example of leadership during a time of national crises.

Margaret Thatcher, aka The Iron Lady, had the hard skills necessary to lead but lacked the soft; those ill-defined skills of compassion and empathy that completes the nucleus of a great leader.

Effective leadership is difficult, very few of us have the innate ability.

Thatcher came close but she needed Queen Elizabeth to temper that iron and show her that a great leader has both hard and soft skills with the innate ability to lead a diverse population during a time of war, in the film it was the Falklands.

During Margaret Thatcher's term as the British prime minister, she worked closely with Ronald Reagan. They were birds of a feather with the exception that Reagan possessed both the hard and soft skills making him one of our greatest. 

Why do I go here during this time of health crises in America, it's to remind us why we elected Joe Biden as our next POTUS. He is everything that DJT is not, the anti-Trump if you will, a man who clearly has the time tested leadership skills, both hard and soft, to guide us through the chaos of the Trump era and forward to a healthy and prosperous new beginning.


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