Bad Leadership Quotes
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
The "job" to which he referred was the Director of the Mossad—–the world's premier espionage and intelligence organization. Prior to Netanyahu, the Mossad had been highly professionalized with little political interference. However, Netanyahu changed that. As an Israeli polarizing politician Netanyahu'a policies and statements where often under attack. What makes this insult particularly interesting is that it had nothing to do with policy but dealt with an aspect of Netanyahu's performance that few discussed.
The background of the statement was Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
In the older Communist economy companies, profit was not required so companies hired many workers to provide employment for as many as possible. Under the newer economic system companies had to become efficient and profitable. But old traditions die hard.
