Friday, August 29, 2008

McCain: using a "global perspective"?

At 44, Sarah Louise Heath Palin is both the youngest and the first female governor in Alaska's relatively brief history as a state. She's also the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating that has bounced around 90 percent.

This is due partly to her personal qualities. When she was leading her underdog Wasilla high school basketball team to the state championship in 1982, her teammates called her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her fierce competitiveness. Two years later, when she won the "Miss Wasilla" beauty pageant, she was also voted "Miss Congeniality" by the other contestants.

Sarah Barracuda. Miss Congeniality. Fire and nice. A happily married mother of five who is still drop dead gorgeous. And smart to boot, a crackerjack governor, a strong fiscal conservative and a ferocious fighter of corruption, especially in her own party. Track, her eldest son, enlisted in the Army last Sept. 11. She's a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association who hunts, fishes and runs marathons. A regular churchgoer, she's staunchly pro-life. She believes in marriage between a man and a woman but was quick to offer benefits to same-sex couples in her native state.

"The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who have crossed Sarah," pollster Dave Dittman told the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes. Her husband is a commercial fisherman and union member (steelworkers); she used to be a union member.

I know it's a broad interpretation of "global perspective" but I think the term is apt for McCain's approach to his choice for VP.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Here is some useful insight from Frank Brown, the dean of INSEAD, a leading international business school with campuses in Europe and Asia that supports the need for a global perspective which is a core concept at Keogh & Associates Consulting, LLC:
"As our economy becomes more global, the need for corporations to develop leaders who can navigate risk, expand into new markets and operate with an international perspective has never been more apparent. Corner offices will increasingly be filled with leaders from all over the world, and the DNA of management will change to reflect the type of transcultural leadership that has proven to drive lasting results for corporations". Read more at Chief Executive Magazine.