Posted on 10/24/2022 5:53:11 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Zelensky has shown a remarkable ability to consistently inspire Ukrainians and maintain a strong emotional connection to the country and its people.
Interestingly, pioneering research conducted years ago by the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services (OSS) continues to inform current thinking on leadership.
The OSS, the predecessor to the CIA, sought out decades ago to find some way to quantify and best understand the mix of attributes necessary to become a great leader.
“Are leaders born or made? I believe the answer is both,” said Mike Mears, a now-retired senior member of the intelligence community who evaluated and trained leaders for decades. As the CIA’s director of human capital, Mears studied, cultivated, and supported those with major leadership roles and huge responsibilities.
While some of the specifics of the leadership analyses may not be available for security reasons, the effort did prove quite successful in predicting the future behavior of those tasked with major leadership positions.
“It's not perfect, but they can, with some precision, filter out if the person has certain attributes. Do the leadership candidates have drive? Is that balanced by empathy? Are they optimists? Are they learners? There is a cluster of measurable traits that you can measure to predict future behavior. That was a great discovery [by] the OSS in ‘43,” Mears said.
Sure enough, there is a desired blend of variables and qualities essential to great leadership, including guidance, empathy, organizational and managerial skills, and, perhaps of greatest importance, the ability to inspire. As a student of great leaders throughout human history and a close observer of the war in Ukraine, Mears told the National Interest that he thinks Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would fare quite well in the kinds of analyses once carried out by the OSS.
“If you gave those assessments to Zelinsky, I'm absolutely convinced, he wouldn't come out in the top 8 percent, which are people with super strong leadership attributes, he would come out in the top 1 percent,” Mears said. “He has shown himself that he's not a comedian. This guy is a highly competent manager, administrator, and leader,” he added.
For example, Mears pointed to Zelensky’s ability to consistently inspire Ukrainians and maintain a strong emotional connection to the country and its people. This measure of emotion or spirit, if even somewhat ineffable, is precisely the kind of thing that can motivate and inspire a population.
“We are talking about the man for the times, get on YouTube and look at any of his videos every night speaking to the people. He's not just going after that logical brain, he's going after that automatic brain, which is full of instincts and emotions and fears and all that. He covers it all in his talks. It's the most inspirational message I've ever seen. I just think it's a miracle that it all came together and the right guy was in the right place at the right time,” Mears concluded.
Where’s the BARF Alert?
Leading a prosperous free country (USA) does not require the same qualities as leading the poorest country in Europe (Ukraine) and imposing harsh war time restrictions on freedom of speech and political dissent.
May we add in the United States’ 61 million abortions? It would assist in fleshing out "order" in the liberal world's condition in the last decades.
Black and white either or arguments tend to too few colors, hues and intensities.
Zelensky is a clown — an actor!
He’s very good at that and following orders from the west while destroying his country and the collective west in the process. He’s what many call “a tool!”
That’s what we’ve come to. Letting actors begging for money dictate our future and our demise.
UMCRevMom, you should learn to think for yourself, not some actor on TV or social media.
so when we went into afghanistan, we were the bad guys....
No, you’re the one who is confused.
Putin is a neo-Stalinist.
Zelensky is a globalist idiotically trumpeting “democracy” for the globalists. But of course, “democracy” is totalitarianism with phony plebescites.
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I think he is indeed a great leader.
Many would have fled the country for a safe haven but not Zelensky! And he can inspire with words and ideas like few others can.
I also think he is willing to listen to others and learn.
Having been brutally attacked by the 2nd largest military in the world, it is amazing how Ukraine has beaten them back over and over. Kudos to Zelensky and to all Ukrainians!
Pepe Escobar
[Forwarded from Sputnik]
❗️🇷🇺 The Russian Defense Ministry has held a briefing on Ukraine’s planned “dirty bomb” provocation. Here are a few takeaways:
🔹 The goal is to falsely accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction, triggering a vigorous international campaign to damage Moscow’s credibility;
🔹 Two Ukrainian organizations have been instructed to assemble the bomb, and their work is now in the final stages;
🔹 There is information that the office of Ukraine’s president had contacts with UK officials to discuss the potential acquisition of nuclear weapon technologies;
🔹 Ukraine has sufficient scientific and production capabilities — three operating NPPs and the decommissioned Chernobyl plant — to create a “dirty bomb” or a low-yield nuclear warhead;
🔹 Kiev will disguise the possible detonation as the abnormal detonation of a Russian nuclear weapon;
🔹 Nuclear isotopes in the air will be recorded by the sensors of the international monitoring system installed in Europe;
🔹 The explosion will contaminate up to several thousand square meters, intimidate the population and increase the flow of refugees across Europe.
Sounds quite like the Obama bombing to smithereens of Libya, which is a major source of "migration" now into Europe. Additionally, this sounds like what is behind the massive and Biden-encouraged influx of :migrants" across out southern border.
Refugees? From war? From narco-cartels? From the fine effects of out "liberal world order."
A great big old media masters shovel full of horse manure. I hope you’re wearing boots while you shovel this crap.
Propaganda posted fresh each by Zeepers and zeeperettes following this pattern!
I don’t think it was Zelenskyyyyyyyyy’s “leadership.” It was our weapons and the U.S. taxpayer’s money.
Meanwhile, in Kiev: “The raids continue: the chief military commissar of Kyiv warned that the subpoenas would be handed over to all those liable for military service...Raids during which subpoenas are issued will continue. They can be issued anywhere and at any time of the day. This was reported to TSN by the head of the Kiev City Center for Acquisition and Social Support, Colonel Yuri Maksimov.”
Good analogies.
Seeing these people going all fangirl over that mincing little grifter is sickening. I, for one, am tired of his sense of entitlement as he panhandles our tax dollars.
Good Monday morning Propo Queen. You are trying to out do yourself with this Z worship piece. GAK!
Hehee...neem hearing that since March. Funny thing has been happening during this supposed “wipe out”....
OH darn!
The cart is out of the bag! LOL!
Thanks Cathi.
I knew back in April this was forthcoming when Nuland gave an interview to the Ukrainian press saying she could not rule out Russia using a nuke in the Ukraine.
She is the one directly responsible for the false nuclear “dirty bomb” idea.
The woman is a menace, a psychopath who understands nothing of what she is doing, and would not care if she did understand.
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