Schumpeter: Remembering Drucker Nov 20, 2009
The speakers were not limited to luminaries of management: they also included Rick Warren, the spiritual guru of the moment in America, Frances Hesselbein, a former head of the American Girl Scouts, and David Gergen, an adviser to both Republican and Democratic presidents. To mark the centennial, the Harvard Business Review put a photograph of Drucker on its cover along with the headline: What Would Peter Do. (The Economist)
Pelosi: Health bill would limit abortion access Nov 14, 2009
AP Photo - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, right, addresses an audience as Harvard Professor David Gergen, left, looks on at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Carville: GOP Gassed Up; Obamacare in Trouble Nov 4, 2009
Voters are voting against the way the country is going, CNN contributor David Gergen said. Maryland Congressman Christopher Van Hollen, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sought to downplay the significance of Republican showings earlier in the evening before the polls closed by pointing to the GOPs low poll numbers. (Newsmax)
CLARENCE PAGE: Obama's Fox strategy flawed Oct 28, 2009
But his inner circle could use the pragmatic, old-school voice of, say, Ronald Reagan administration veterans like David Gergen, enlisted by Bill Clinton's White House, or Colin Powell, who has informally advised Obama. Every president needs campaign experts. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Obama: Is he Carter or Reagan? Oct 27, 2009
Obama should worry about who he is, not who he might be, analyst David Gergen says ... "Carter is held up as the model of the ineffectual president -- a saint of a man but an ineffectual president. And so when people compare Obama to Carter, that is an attack," said David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN who also worked in the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton administrations. (CNN)
Highlights of the Boston Book Festival Oct 23, 2009
The Obama Year Boston Public Library Rabb Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Featuring: Michael E. Porter, David Gergen, Jack Beatty, Lani Guinier. Thrillers and Killers Boston Public Library Public Reading Room, 4 p.m. Featuring: Stephen Carter, Andre Dubus III, Joseph Finder. (Boston Globe)
Is Kerry a de Facto Secretary of State? Oct 23, 2009
David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University, said traditionally the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "stays at home and goes quietly on fact-finding missions. "It's extremely rare that any president calls on an individual outside the executive branch to do as much representative work and diplomacy as Sen. Kerry," said Gergen, who served as an adviser to four presidents. If Clinton leaves her position during the Obama administration, Gergen... (CBS News -- World)
AIR FORCE - Leader Discusses Innovation Oct 22, 2009
" That sort of thing could allow DOD officials to "retake the asymmetric advantage by constantly changing the attack surface," he said. This might mean that information appearing to be available in one place at one time might actually be, or at least appear to be, somewhere else 30 seconds later. The general challenged conference attendees to think about such innovative ideas and to keep proposing more. In technical break-out sessions and other forums throughout the conference, many such ideas... (DOD DefenseLINK)
Boston Book Festival features 90 authors Oct 18, 2009
Harvard professors Lani Guinier and Michael Porter, Atlantic senior editor Jack Beatty, and political pundit David Gergen will assess President Obama s record. Other panels will focus on historical novels set in and around Boston, star athletes, memoirs, thrillers, and cutting-edge fiction. (Boston Globe)
Obama's Right. It's Time To Stop Taking Fox's Skewed News Seriously. Oct 17, 2009
It begins by quoting a Fox News senior vice president named Michael Clemente, who says: "It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part." Then it quotes David Gergen, the gravelly voice of Washington's conventional wisdom, who says the attack diminishes President Obama and works to Fox's benefit. Then we hear from Tony Blankley, Newt Gingrich's former press secretary and a frequent Fox contributor, who agrees that... (Slate)
Fox and White House at war Oct 14, 2009
You are going to build them [the critics] up and give them stature,'' CNN's political consultant, David Gergen, warned. Fox may have been issuing a warning as well. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
CEOs discuss leading in crisis Sep 19, 2009
Panelists at the discussion, moderated by former Medtronic Inc. CEO and Harvard University business professor Bill George, included John Donahoe, CEO and chair of ; David Gergen, director of the center for public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former presidential advisor; Anne Mulcahy, chair and former CEO of ; and Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair and former CEO of Minnetonka-based George last month on leading in crisis. On the need for preparation, Carlson Nelson spoke of how... (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Obamas school speech: The wrong battle to fight Sep 9, 2009
I recall Clinton hiring David Gergen and Dick Morris, both Republican operatives, to help him craft his message for someone other than his inner circle of aging hippies. Obama needs the same, a smart conservative a George Will type who can help him understand what half the country is thinking so they don t continue to step on their toes. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Bill George launching leading-in-crisis book Aug 17, 2009
George will moderate a panel with CNN commentator David Gergen; Anne Mulcahy, chair and former CEO of Xerox Corp.; John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay Inc.; and Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair and former Carlson Cos ... Books:Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, August 2004True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George, David Gergen, Peter Sims, March 2007Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide by Bill George, Andrew McLean and Nick Craig,... (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
They Think You Are Stupid: Why Resistance To Obamacare Is Growing Despite Intimidation and Slander Aug 7, 2009
George S. was a great asset to Bill Clinton but not so good in the Press Room and got yanked in favor of David Gergen about six months into Clinton's first term. Is Gergen warming up in his permanent D.C. bullpen. (Townhall.com)
Plano: Chase Oaks Church to host broadcast of Leadership Summit 2009 Aug 5, 2009
Event speakers include a variety of well-known church and business leaders from around the world, including Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; David Gergen, political analyst for CNN and PBS and former White House advisor to four presidents; Bono, lead singer of U2; Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard; Bill Hybels, founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church; Harvey Carey, founder and senior pastor of the Citadel of... (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Carroll: Stages of business decline mimicked by ethical lapses Jul 26, 2009
In a recent Fortune article, David Gergen offered steps executives could take to stand tall again. These include frankly acknowledging their role in the current mess; working for, not against social reforms; and embracing the concept of management becoming a true profession. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Meet the panelists Jun 18, 2009
David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report and a former adviser to four U.S. presidents, serves as a senior political analyst for CNN Worldwide. Additionally, Gergen is a professor of public service and the director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. (CNN -- US)
Family feud roils Republican Party May 15, 2009
David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst, said that based on the performance so far, he can't imagine Steele staying on as chairman a year from now. Don't Miss. (CNN -- International)
Failing on Campaign Promises Apr 19, 2009
This is no big deal, sniffs David Gergen, himself a former White House staffer. Money often flows to talented people in our society, and rather than being surprised by it or knocking it, I think we should celebrate when a president has the, I think, is smart enough to bring people along with him whove had some success in life, he said on CNN.. (Townhall.com)
Mann looks at Reagan's diplomatic legacy Apr 10, 2009
Pragmatists such as chief of staff James A. Baker and David Gergen, the communications director, were horrified and fought to keep it out but they were outvoted. Where Mann really hits his stride, and the book becomes invaluable, is when he gets to Reagan's second term, and Gorbachev takes over in the Soviet Union. (Boston Globe)
Miller Will Deliver Annual Governor's Lecture Mar 17, 2009
Political commentator and former presidential advisor David Gergen calls Miller one of those few, invaluable voices who is able to reach beyond the truisms of yesterday to help us think anew about tomorrow. New York Times columnist David Brooks said Matt Miller shows that the biggest crisis we face is the crisis of imagination. (Nebraska Statepaper)
After Capitalism Mar 11, 2009
Weekly Standard, March 16The author of the vows to "never, ever join Facebook, the omnipresent online social-networking site that like so many things that have menaced our country (the Unabomber, Love Story, David Gergen) came to us from Harvard but has now worked its insidious hooks into every crevice of society." Usually a late-adopter of trends, he's forsaking this one completely, in part, he notes, because of Farhad Manjoo's on Slate that everyone else has joined. "[C]ollecting Facebook... (Slate)
Harvard's link to Washington Mar 10, 2009
"This is the largest number of Harvard professors going into government that I can remember in a long time," says David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and an adviser to former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. "Harvard in the '60s, and today, remains the leading research university in the world. It has a very large faculty of political scientists, historians, economists and others.... (Insight on the News)
New president making his mark -- everywhere Feb 26, 2009
David Gergen, who has advised both Republican and Democratic presidents, said Obama was "near the edge" of overexposure. Both he and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, agreed that Obama needs more people in his administration who are as capable of speaking to the public, and as credible, as he is. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Post-Racial or 'Post' Racial? Feb 19, 2009
Even the usually unflappable David Gergen couldnt stop himself from shaking his head in horror at this black man's attempt to explain away this cartoon. From the way his eyes were fixed in one position one would assume he his blind (I'm using blind here as opposed to visually impaired). (Slate)
he told Larry King Feb 18, 2009
David Gergen is with us in Indian Wells, California, senior adviser on CNN and is a former adviser to five presidents ... DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I thought the most interesting thing about the conversation you had with George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, Larry, was the disconnect between the two of them, especially the president, and the rest -- much of the country ... KING: David Gergen, did she handle that well. (Harper's Magazine)
Galluping Past Bad Polls? Feb 12, 2009
CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson announced: "More than half of Americans say Congress should make big changes to the president's stimulus package or reject it all together. And Republicans detect a chink in the armor." CNN analyst David Gergen lamented: "I don't think they anticipated was how effective the Republicans and the critics would be in picking it apart." Appearing as a guest on the "NewsHour" on PBS, Sen. John Thune also spread the number, even if the anchors and reporters there hadn't... (Human Events Online)
