one of our most successful presidents whether you like his politics or his politics or not is franklin donna was about. he was famous for giving everyone in sight of his own government is sense that he agreed with them or early on even if they had quite opposing views. some of his advisers forced done at the moment of the decision that roosevelt indicated great sympathy with their view actually thought they were full of nonsense. the reason he did that was you wanted to be a good manager and give everyone room to give their own ideas and develop them. one way a good leader can overcome the creativity and innovation squelching character of stating a view is not too stated view. so to be very quiet so to speak at the outset and to be eliciting views with a sense of sympathetic curiosity. in government i observed that some of the best people are really great at that. they didn't give people a sense that they were stupid. they didn't give people a sense that they were on the wrong track until the time of decision when they would not say they were stupid but they would say we need to go another w