How to run a city. This power model is a for a city, with a mayor, division chiefs, and political operatives. In a previous blog we described a number of ways leadership manifests itself in our lives. This is copied below. The nature of this type of city leadership involves at least six components, with the mayor as its center. All are important, and all are essential. 1. A quiescent public . The public must be mollified to inaction on most issues. They will only become involved, not when the wheels of power are wobbly, but when the wheels have actually fallen off. 2. A cooperative press . The press needs to focus on ancillary matters, distractions, deceptions, and diversions. It must not be investigative about any aberrations of city command. The press acts in the public interest only when the issue or story is unavoidable, and likely when it is pressed by the outside. The press is essential in its willingness to broadcast only "selected truths." 3. A single pa
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