Otto von Bismarck said: “Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.” In issues management you don’t need to constantly reinvent the wheel. Build on past successes and avoid the mistakes made by others. Barack Obama learned from the failure of Hillary Clinton’s health care initiative to craft and pass Obamacare into law.
Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency was meteoric. He served as a state senator in Illinois beginning in 1996 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. That year, like Bill Clinton before him, he gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention. His gift for public speaking was extraordinary, and the speech was a big hit and provided him ...
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