Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Vartan Gregorian
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had no better friend over the past two decades than Vartan Gregorian. Over and over again, as we attempted new phases of institutional growth and innovation, he was there to help. In every case, he started by listening carefully to our ideas and plans and then challenged us to sharpen our thinking, aim higher, and strive for deeper impact. And then after we did our best to respond to his probing questions, he followed through with invaluable support on multiple planesâresources, contacts, and ideas.
Intellectualism is a word that the Washington policy community nervously avoids. As president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Vartan embodied the very best of what that word can mean, and he helped instill it in usâan appreciation for research that goes deep, insists on originality, pays adequate dues to culture and history, and doesnât stop until it finds
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Article by May 18, 2021
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by
Guy Hewitt
Barbados has been blessed with some great leaders, a few good ones and given the law of averages, with some not so good.
Conventional wisdom suggests and polities seem to accept that successful leaders, particularly political, must possess certain egotistical and narcissistic traits in order to survive the rigors of leadership.
This is by no means a criticism. It is unusual for someone to consider that he or she has the capacity to run a country. Furthermore, these characteristics may be seen as necessary to withstand the onslaughts from adversaries and contend with the backstabbing of purported allies.