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Tom Cronin: Leadership capital, and its paradoxes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Leadership capital” is a general metaphor used in business, politics and the military to denote that a “leader” has approximately so much prestige or usable “currency.” It is not exactly the same as power or…
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A look back at the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cronin and Loevy
Monday is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the law that made illegal all forms of racial segregation in public businesses throughout the United States. The big obstacle to a civil…
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Policy jam on Pennsylvania Avenue | Cronin & Loevy
The U.S. Congress meets and votes in the Capitol building atop Capitol Hill, 16 blocks east of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington DC. Nowadays, those long blocks are hot, humid, and hard to travel. Americans understandably turn to presidents and the Congress to help solve major public policy problems. We understandably…
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Policy jam on Pennsylvania Avenue | Cronin & Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The U.S. Congress meets and votes in the Capitol building atop Capitol Hill, 16 blocks east of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington DC. Nowadays, those long blocks are hot, humid, and hard to travel. Americans understandably turn to presidents and the…
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TRAIL MIX | Recalling Colorado’s connection to John Lewis’ ‘good trouble’
A week ago, marking one year since the day civil rights icon John Lewis died at age 80, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a friend and longtime colleague of the Georgia congressman, shared a memory on social media. “His legacy of standing up and fighting for what he truly believed in will never be forgotten,” the…
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TRAIL MIX | Recalling Colorado’s connection to John Lewis’ ‘good trouble’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A week ago, marking one year since the day civil rights icon John Lewis died at age 80, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a friend and longtime colleague of the Georgia congressman, shared a memory on…