Great oratory, great help
Observer June 22nd, 2007
Not rare to find among middle managers (that much maligned group in large companies) the tut tutting about so and so’s being advanced on seemingly ‘great presentation skills’, and not much else. The innuendo, that selection committees are somehow blindsighted to shortfalls in other skill areas, so dazzled are they by the candidate’s energy, mastery of message, and delivery in front of an audience.
There’s every chance that presentation skills are overvalued, and may give the occasional break to lower true potential candidates, but at the end of the day we know that substance matters too for sustainable success. So following now Barack Obama after following Segolene Royal, can he deliver from a standing start the policies to match the passion? It’s energizing indeed for the dems to have such a naturally capable orator. And a rich personal story doesn’t harm either. If nothing else he helps bring people back, and younger people in, to the political discourse, stimulating political debate in families and communities in a way that has, across the developed world, being remarkably zoned out and latent over the past several years.
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