A need to master the tyranny of the urgent

... an overarching challenge for the next president will be a high order of multitasking. That will mean minimising the extent to which these tasks – each in its own way urgent – compete with one another. The only way to do that is to find ways of making progress on one front in a manner that helps on others. That can be done if the solutions are executed in ways that take account, and make a virtue, of the inter-relationship of the problems. Full Story »

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Topics: Global Warming, Presidential Election 2008, U.S. Economy, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 3, 2008 - 8:04 AM PST
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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 3, 2008

Looking at the challenges facing the next president, Talbot (the head of the Brookings Institute) connects the short term issues such as the U.S. Economy, and how they are tied to longer term reform with regard to global warming, energy, and foreign policy.

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