Leadership 101 – Require It!

Okay, this is my proposal. Before anyone gets to even run for president, they have to do two things.

1. Participate in a Boy Scout-type leadership program. They are made “patrol leaders” and given tasks to accomplish and problems to solve with patrol members of different personalities and skill levels. The tasks can be as simple as getting camp set up, water made available, and everyone fed. Make sure some lazy patrol members and bullies are thrown in for some real-life conflict problems to solve that will hopefully ignite a sense of fairness in the leader. The program culminates with leading a large-scale conservation-type project. The candidate is given no resources to do this other than his/ her own abilities. The leader will have to research solutions, communicate his vision, recruit and motivate a workforce, get funds and materials, adapt to changing conditions, and MOST importantly, MAKE DECISIONS and get it done.

2. After graduating from the type of program many kids complete when they’re 14-18 years old, the candidates move on to a Celebrity Apprentice-type program. 8 weeks. On TV. Are they creative thinkers? Do they delegate well? Do they listen to others with respect? Do they foster unity or divisiveness? Again, most importantly, do they MAKE DECISIONS, provide direction, and get it done, in usually 48 hours?!

This is how you choose a POTUS, not by listening to a bullshit debate and trying to figure out who shaved the most recently or who has had more plastic surgery.

And if I may add, we used to get politicians/ leaders who were Eagle Scouts before we hit the late 1970s-80s, when being a Scout who could lead a troop of canoes 8 miles down a river became UNCOOL. And ridiculed.

Pah. I know kids who can do a better job leading our country right now. I’m not kidding.