Whatever a feudel fiefdom might be.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage. - Bruce Fairchild Barton



A great leader is born not made is a theoretical debate that never gets resolved. But then I do not think it can be taught. That is why Washington and Cuomo just have it in them! and FDR! and JFK! and Roy! Vince Lombardi thinks the other way around?

"How did the feudal system work? Under the feudal system land was granted to people for service. It started at the top with the king granting his land to a baron for soldiers all the way down to a peasant getting land to grow crops. The center of life in the Middle Ages was the manor. The manor was run by the local lord."



This piece, written by my son Roy's legal marketing friend Deborah Farone … INSIGHT: What Law Firm Leaders Can Learn From Cuomo’s Pandemic Actions .

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic offer leadership lessons, writes Deborah B. Farone, founder of Farone Advisors LLC. Law firm leaders faced with tough decisions can learn the importance of taking ownership of responsibility, crystal clear communication, basing actions on statements of fact, and personal empathy.

As an adviser to law firm leaders, I’ve always been interested in the question of what qualities are necessary to be an exceptional leader. And during these days of COVID-19, like many others, I want to hear from someone I trust who has a solid command of the facts. What I turn to each morning is the 11 a.m. press conference delivered by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

I’ve continued to watch these conferences day after day, for both the clarity they offer me as a New York citizen, and to experience true leadership during a time of crisis. I greatly admire how Cuomo is both managing the multi-prong and massive challenge posed by the spread of the virus, and the way he communicates the important facts we must know.

Many of these approaches are practices that our business and law firm leaders can apply. The governor’s actions and how he engages with a concerned citizenry during these extraordinary times may be helping to rewrite the rule book of modern leadership.

VERY INTERESTING! I ALREADY ADORE CUOMO, BUT I STILL SEE "INDUSTRY" WRITTEN ALL OVER EVERYTHING. WHETHER SCIENCE OR POLITICS, OR CORPORATIONS, OR GOVERNMENT…AND THE BIG FISH RULE THE DAY AS BIG FISH BERNIE TELLS US ALL AFTER ALL. RATIONALIZATION AND HERD THE PEASANTS TO THEIR FEUDAL FIEFDOM WHATEVER A FEUDAL FIEFDOM MIGHT BE…THEN OFF WITH THEIR HEADS?

AND MOST OF US FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY.



NOBODY, HOWEVER IDIOTICALLY PRODUCTIVE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN PUSHED INTO BEING AND USED BY THE HIGHER UPS, IS INDISPOSABLE WHEN THE SHIP IS SINKING-- AND WHO MIGHT THE RATS BE? SO BE IT…THOMAS PAINE AND I SEE NO TOMORROW IF YA AIN'T ONE OF THEM THERE AT THE TOP ALREADY EXCEPT WHEN HIDING IN BUNKERS LIKE DICK CHENEY IN VICE.

Sorry to mix my metaphors with bunkers and castle towers and submarines and trenches, and museums, and Architectural Digest-type sacred structures with majestic columns and all the ships at sea. At least we should everyone of us admit to global warming/climate change and that animals will be better off without us mucking up their Darwinian right-to-life and survival of the fittest!

Signed: George Orwell, Theodore Seuss, Kurt Vonnegut, Thoreau, and Bradbury, too



Please read this as you sit on your asses on couches if you possess couches, dear readers, only to be discovered when Pompeii is safe to architecturally dig and marvel at and take selfies with. That is our preposition decree…always end decrees with some kinda propo-prepostion!

POSTSCRIPT: How is Ireland doing? I am ready to abandon my house and move there to live and bask in the security of genius minds which will see us through no doubt about it. But, at this point in time, do we go there by sailboat instead of a jet? I no longer feel loyalty to the United States nor to my Hoosier state neither/either. Signed: Benedict Arnold.

POST-postscript: Is Ireland as corporately minded as our single-minded cowboy nation? I hope not! I want to become a leprechaun tomorrow! And green has always been my favorite color. And Finian's Rainbow is there I hear? OH, Danny boy, I love you so. Too roo loo ra loo ra--'tis an Irish lullaby!



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