It was cofounded by two women and another man, hes no longer with the organization. At the time i did the interview, five out of the six national coordinate beers were women. And coordinators were women. And this is a group that is not a gender tea party group, this is Just Tea Party patriots, sort of a straightforward tea party organization. So my sense of talking to people in the tea party is there are lots of women leaders. In fact, they encourage more women to get involved in the tea party. And, in fact, many women that i spoke with thought that it was a far more open, hospitable place to become a leader than, say, the Republican Party. In the book i talk about a couple of women who had negative experiences trying to get involved in their local gop. They were rebuffed, they actually had sexist treatment. So theyre even willing to recognize that sex doesnt exist even among conservative outlets. So i think for them the tea party is, it allows them especially with social media to form
President s are so obsessed with talking and campaigning and going places that they fail to take the time to think about the third step of leadership, which is implementing policy. In fact, i start the book with a quote from Thomas Jefferson the execution of the laws more important than making them. If you think of leadership as three tasks, getting the answer right, the policy right, communicating that and implementing its the argument i make in this book is that president s spend so much time on communication that it leaves them little time to think about how they are going to implement the policies they want to implement. That involves understanding something that in the Business Schools we call organizational capacity. In other words, if the federal government, if a piece of the federal government that you are giving this job to, is it capable, is it up to the job that you the president are asking it to do, so to give you an example of why there is this disconnect, lets merely jew
Dan. Literally, lightbulb went on when i read that book and i decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and live in that kind of life that i should be thinking about taking care of myself and expanding my own horizon. I can honestly say that is one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself. Programs online at booktv. Org. Best selling author eric metaxas is next on booktv. His most recent book is if you can keep it the forgotten promis of american liberty. Welcome and happy flag day. [applause] i hope i have communicated to you how excited i am that it is flag day. Did anybody read what i wrote in todays paper . [applause] i wrote an oped in the wall street journal today about flag day am and ill be talking about that a little bit later on but im just really, really excited about that. I want to talk about why that is important to be that it is important and it kind of ties into the theme of the book actually. Im not talk