One More Thing
This is my last blog in this series on leadership and values.
I was reading the Toronto Star on the weekend and I came across such a wonderful example of consistency in leadership values that I had to share it with you. The Toronto Star interviewed Barack Obama in 1990 when he was named the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
What struck me about this article is Obama's consistency of values. If I was asked to describe Obama's leadership values (his leadership voice) today, I would say that he is a man who:
- is as a defender of the less fortunate,
- chooses the "road less travelled" for himself and others, and
- has very high standards for himself and those around him.
Read the article, you'll see the same values were there in 1990 when Obama was 28 years old. His answers to the interview questions are striking.
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