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Deciding Which Issues to Address and When as a Public Leader

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How does a public leader decide which issues to address and when? Can a public leader keep everybody happy?

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Public leaders have a two fold mission, to pass laws that benefit their constituents and to get reelected or keep their jobs, often decided by the elected leaders. So to know what issues to address and when, largely comes from others. Though most public leaders have agendas they want to accomplish, often they must be suppressed or managed at a lower priority than those requested by the public or the higher level public leaders.

In government, these leaders are often forced to manipulate their own wants to meet the needs of others. This is not just in terms of changing a rule of law or ...

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