Take the Lead [antikvár]

FOREWORD BY DAVID GERGEN What a delight to welcome to the front ranks of leadership books a fresh, vibrant, down-to-earth voice. Readers of this fine new work will quickly discover here what I began learning a decade ago— that Betsy Myers is special. I had first heard about Betsy in the early 1990s. She and her sister Dee Dee, the first woman to serve as a US president's press secretary, were rising stars in the Clinton administration. Growing up in California as daughters of a navy pilot, they had each found separate paths into politics. They were both attractive, so they mrned heads, but they soon won professional respect because they had good heads of their own. Erskine Bowles, then head of the Small Business Administration and later chief of staff at the White House (yes, the same Erskine who cochaired the national deficit commission in 2010), recognized Betsy's talents and put her in charge of working with women who were small business owners, a growing force in the country. Later Betsy came to the Clinton White House herself to run outreach efforts to women. The president and Hillary often spoke highly of her. So it was with some curiosity that I greeted her as a student in my classroom at the John F. Kennedy School of Government just as the Clinton years were coming to an end. It was the first year at Harvard for each of us—she in pursuit of a master's degree, me IX