Tom Friedman’s advice to President-Elect Obama echoes some of the central themes of one of the Reut team’s forthcoming update on Leapfrogging Israel’s quality of life.
Friedman explains that Obama is inheriting a United States in social and economic disarray, and suggests that his response should be a thoughtful, pragmatic policy that aims to reach a vision of a “better” America, a vision whose details will only become clear and refined as time progresses.
Reut has found that there is no direct path to leapfrogging Israel’s quality of life; and that there will inevitably be set-backs along the way. Trial-and-error coupled with pragmatism in policy creation are therefore essential componenets to socio-economic leapfrogging. An environment that encourages experimentalism that remains loyal to the leapfrog vision is essential.
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Interesting post.
This reminds me of a book by Dean Williams called Real Leadership. Williams defines 6 different types of leadership – activist, development, transition, maintenance, creatove and crisis.
Two of the challenges are relevant here – a Develoment Challenge, in which Williams suggests developing in stages – ‘giving people time to see what works’; and the Creative Challenge in which a leaders should be ‘generous in wasting time and resources’ i.e the importance of trial and error when creating something new.