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Some People Seem To Believe That For Each Problem There Is A Solution Readily Available - A Solution That Can Be Promptly Achieved By Passing A Law And Voting Some Money. I Think Of This As The Vending Machine Concept Of Social Change. Put A Coin In The Machine And Out Comes A Piece Of Candy. If There Is A Social Problem, Pass A Law And Out Comes A Solution.

For Every Talent That Poverty Has Stimulated It Has Blighted A Hundred.

Paralysis Of Leadership Is Due In Part To The Unseen Grip Of The Special Interests.

Leaders Develop Their Styles As They Interact With Their Constituencies. They Move Toward The Style That Seems Most Effective In Dealing With The Mixture Of Elements That Make Up Their Constituencies.

All That We Know About The Interaction Between Leaders And Constituents Or Followers Tells Us That Communication And Influence Flow In Both Directions; And In That Two-way Communication, Nonrational, Nonverbal, And Unconscious Elements Play Their Part.