Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney is a case study of how leaders lead, or don’t, when speaking on the record.
Every public outing is an opportunity to make friends—or enemies. To avoid the latter, resist cheap shots, put downs and self-serving comparisons while evoking the names of others.
Romney was waving a red flag with every sneering reference he made about former democratic president, Jimmy Carter. He was using Carter to take aim at Barack Obama, who Romney wants badly to make another one-term president. It was mean-spirited and unnecessary. Carter has spent …

On Friday, Mitt Romney appeared on Fox News with Bret Baier to talk about President Obama’s convention speech.  Another interview and more evidence that Romney may be short on emotional intelligence.
Psychologists John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey describe emotional intelligence as “the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”
Romney has chastised Obama for failing to provide specifics to fix the economy. In his convention speech, Romney focused on the economy, but he forgot to …

While campaigning in Pennsylvania yesterday, Congressman Paul Ryan was asked if abortions should be available to women who are raped.  This has been the hot topic since Congressman Todd Akin, linked the words “legitimate” and “rape” in his notorious interview.  Ryan distanced himself, repeating President Obama, word for word, with “rape is rape.”
It’s never a good sign when you’re quoting your opponent except to draw a contrast. Besides, it was not apparent that Ryan recalled where he first heard the words as he spoke them.  And he had an interesting back-up message. …

Most people are smarter than they sound. And they are often a lot smarter than they sound when speaking on the record. That’s because interviews are less about what you know and more about how you present yourself. They reveal character.
That said, what have I learned about Mitt Romney? How, as a business leader and presidential candidate, does he presents himself? Number One: This is a guy who is use to being in charge. Even as controversy swirls around him, Romney seems unaware of the fact that he’s not the boss of the …

News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James received high marks for the controlled, crafty confidence they displayed before the parliamentary select committee investigating the phone hacking scandal in July, 2011. There in the flesh was the 80-year-old mogul, proof that a public grilling can’t be out sourced or delegated.  Murdoch claimed he knew next to nothing about what his underlings were up to and apart from his public apologies it wasn’t clear how much he cared.
The pair were back in the hot seat for the formal inquiry launched …