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Government

Sep. 7, 2011

The mediator-in-chief: Obama’s leadership style

Criticism of the president's perceived lack of leadership continues from the left and right. By Robert A. Steinberg of ADR Services Inc.


By Robert A. Steinberg


Criticism of President Barack Obama's perceived lack of leadership continues from the left and right. The debt ceiling debate heightened his critics' concerns that Obama fails to exert sufficient force and direction to get what he wants. The extent to which Obama's leadership style resembles that of a mediator, however, is striking.


Because each party controls a house of Congress, the wrangling superficially is between...

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