This Don Braid column is fantastic. I'm on record saying I think Alison Redford was a smart person with really good ideas, but probably the worst politician I've ever seen in action. Braid sums it up nicely.
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She had so many of them, and pursued them with such unbending passion, that she neglected the everyday things — the connection with regular people, the concern for frugality in her work, the building of friendships in her party and caucus, the small gestures of respect, the kind attention to people she was forced to cast off.
She never seemed to realize — and her resignation speech gave no sign she’s starting — that to do the big stuff, a leader has to get those small things right.
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion...350/story.html