Former President Bill Clinton explains Barack Obama's natural leadership skill as "lateral integration" of other people's experiences:
No president can have enough of the right experience to be successful based solely on his own firsthand knowledge[.] The job is too big for that, which is why all of Dick Cheney's experience in different positions of government didn't make him a better leader. You have to have led multiple lives by absorbing the life and work experiences of others. (p. 210)
Found in The Promise: President Obama, Year One
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