A good leader is Strategic

Being strategic means, most basically, being able to accomplish your goals, over the long term. Stephen Harper may be a tactician, but his record shows he tends to make policy decisions based on ideology rather than evidence — a recipe for long-term failure.

A case study in evidence-blind decision making

September 30, 2008 – 10:27 pm

A number of policy decisions undertaken by Stephen Harper’s federal conservatives demonstrate a wilful disregard for the use of evidence and research to inform policy, including the Conservatives’ approach to child care funding and their literacy funding cuts.
But most unforgivable among their systematic evidence-blindness is the approach they’ve taken to addressing climate change, another issue [...]

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