Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category

Levels of leadership

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

In response to Johanna

Beginner:doesn’t know what he’s doing

Intermediate: thinks he knows what he’s doing

Advanced: knows what he’s doing

Beyond advanced: “What is this thinking business, you over-analyze everything, feel what you are doing.”

Joe Biden

Monday, October 20th, 2008

While often guilty of leading long and convoluted steps he is a calm and steady dancer who ruins it all with a missplaced comment as he returns you to your chair.

John McCain

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

When you worked with him in the class he seamed to have his own genuine voice but now that it’s the big milonga it turns out his steps are just hackneyed copies of someone elses steps.

Barak Obama

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

One word. Smooth. Although it should probably be spelled ’smooootth’. He moves with an upright grace that has all the followers who dance with him walking away afterwards in a hypnotic daze not sure what he did or was going to do, just that it was smooth.

Bill Clinton

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Good-Time-Boy. He has bucket-loads of charisma and applies it liberally. Likely to buy every one drinks ’cause “it’s the economy, stupid”. Will flirt with anything in a dress and then go to great lengths denying it ever happened. No one remembers what the dance was like because once Slick Willy turns on the charm forget about it.

George W Bush

Friday, April 11th, 2008

He’s confident, oh dear Jesus is he confident. So much so that he uses it to cover it up his ineptitude. Nothing will be thought through, it will just be done. He will launch into things that he can’t get out of leaving him precariously balanced with his leg wrapped round your arse. Of course because he is so confident he thinks the world, apart from one or two oddly strung followers that he is out to get, loves him and there is nothing you can do about it.

Stalin

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

He leads and directs with a cold steel grip. His route around the dance floor is performed according to a five year plan and will be executed no matter what the cost or the obstacle. You are required to affectionately refer to him as uncle Joe. Any form of passive leading will be strictly punished and if you step out of line you can expect to be banished to the gulag of the back row of seats never to be heard of again. He will also have a number of satellite leaders in his thrall subject to his whim.

Leadership

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The male role in tango is commonly referred to as that of Leader. Well to be a leader implies leadership and the various qualities required. Much has been written about leadership, unfortunately badly and directed at middle management David Brent types.

In this series I am going to describe the various types of tango leader one can encounter in terms of world leaders.