{"id":6275,"date":"2010-07-07T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:02:31","slug":"anger-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/07\/anger-and-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger and leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6276\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/Obama-angry-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Obama angry\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>Although &#8220;coolness&#8221; was a factor that helped get him elected, President Obama has come under fire for not showing more anger &#8212; with banks, terrorists, or oil spills.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Kathy Kram\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/KramKathy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Kram<\/a>, an expert on executive leadership development, says temperment is basically a set of preferences for how one wants to be in the world &#8212; and staying cool has been what has worked for Obama through his career.\u00a0 Leaders must show emotion, she says in a <em>BU Today<\/em> <a title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/11206\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, and Obama seems more inclined to express his emotions in a planned, thoughtful way rather than in random outbursts.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think a lot of times constituents are looking for passion. I suspect that Obama\u2019s logical, rational, fact-based approach can sometimes mask his passion. Maybe that\u2019s what the public is looking for at the moment: the passion to get things right.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Kathy Kram, 617-353-4269, <a href=\"mailto:kekram@bu.edu\">kekram@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although &#8220;coolness&#8221; was a factor that helped get him elected, President Obama has come under fire for not showing more anger &#8212; with banks, terrorists, or oil spills.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Kathy Kram, an expert on executive leadership development, says temperment is basically a set of preferences for how one wants to be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3316,75,3315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}