Nina Easton
Nina Easton
Nina Jane Easton is an American journalist and author. She is currently a senior editor and columnist for Fortune Magazine where she covers political and economic news. Easton is also the co-chair of Fortune Magazine's annual Most Powerful Women Summit, a frequent political analyst on television and 2012 fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.
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Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
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It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.
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In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.
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Community colleges are popular among political leaders of both parties. But because of the lack of funding and a lack of direction, they have lost their critical edge in preparing workers for a 21st-century economy.
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Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.
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Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
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Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.
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Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.
Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.
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Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
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Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.
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In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.