so, thank you for coming in and i m glad we have got the ac going, so welcome. make yourself comfortable pair before we get started if you housekeeping notes. if you could take the time to silence your cell phone and while you have your phone that you don t have to turn it off. you can follow kramer books on facebook and twitter and instagram. sign-up for our e-mail newsletter if you have not already. we would love for you to visit our website at kramer.com. and on our website you and bind their events and sign up for our newsletter, so that way you keep on top of the great stuff we have got going like tonight s event with elaine kamarck. i am that events director here at kramer books and it s my pleasure to welcome you in my pleasure to welcome elaine this evening for her new book: why presidents fail and how they can succeed again . for those of you that don t know elaine is a senior fellow at booking and the founding director of the center for effective public management.
presidents are so obsessed with talking and campaigning and going places that they fail to take the time to think about the third step of leadership, which is implementing policy. in fact, i start the book with a quote from thomas jefferson the execution of the laws more important than making them . if you think of leadership as three tasks, getting the answer right, the policy right, communicating that and implementing its the argument i make in this book is that presidents spend so much time on communication that it leaves them little time to think about how they are going to implement the policies they want to implement. that involves understanding something that in the business schools we call organizational capacity. in other words, if the federal government, if a piece of the federal government that you are giving this job to, is it capable, is it up to the job that you the president are asking it to do, so to give you an example of why there is this disconnect, let s
there is an affidavit from donald f terry. he was employed with the committee on small business. it was charged in 1976 new rules of official conduct of the house. he refers to book royalties. i should come to that next. in these matters, these three people who had a great deal to do with writing the rules say that is not what they intended. where else might you turn? might you not possibly go to the committee itself and see what opinions it has given? here is the publication that the committee sends to tell us what is legal. each year we received this, as instructions to fill out the statement. appendix e is advisory number 10, which defines who has a direct interest in legislation under the law. it says if the member does not believe that the donor of the gift has a special interest in the congressional legislative process which sets him apart from the general public, then the member should feel free to accept such gifts. then he defines who has an interest in legislation
sara s out there in the wetness and looking for a couple of people in the crowd who are going to come in and get their game on with us. get crazy. i want to see some of these people to see where we re going to pick from. oh, wow. good. building up. excellent. sad news this morning for ashley judd and her husband of 11 years. he s the race car driver, a lot of people know, dario francetti. they said they were splitting, calling it quits. they put out a joint statement together saying they decided to mutually end their marriage. they always will be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on love, respect, integrity, and joy. these things are always well worded, and you understand why. they always ask for privacy at a time like this. i always say when i read back. can you go back to what it says exactly? here it is. that doesn t help me. here it is. that makes it worse. we ll always be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on the s
amazing. also, we ll use it to do better education and put technology to use to help the poor as well. if you could be more specific, i m going to call my investment guy about that. we ll talk to bill gates about the future of technology. also he talks about changing the world, the enormous generosity of his foundation, having given over $26 billion to date. we re happy to have you here. we ll talk to you about that, mr. bill gates. and the super bowl, the volkswagen ad that has a white man speaking with a jamaican accent. a lot of people felt it crossed the line. we asked you at home what you thought and those results were overwhelmingly one sided. we are going share those results with you later on. a story that touched a lot of people. the first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the iraq war. he is showing off his new arms after undergoing a double arm transplant. this is very rare, very complicated procedure. coming up, we ll talk to two of the do