Bush Presidency wobbled between two poles - overweening arrogance and paralytic incompetence.

NVDL: We can learn from Bush how not to repeat the same mistakes (yes even outside of the USA.

In terms of arrogance, check what you know with what you don't know. Speak to, listen to, and understand your destractors (don't merely sound-off and ignore them). Read. Like, newspapers and financial magazines, and books.

In terms of obvious incompetence - admit mistakes, apologise, and get some expert advice (assuming of course you can get yourself out of denial, and second, that you're capable of listening to an expert rather than 'being the expert'.) And get disciplined to learn how to do your job (instead of finding excuses). Then go do it.

clipped from news.yahoo.com So I've been searching for valedictory encomiums. His position on immigration was admirable and courageous; he was right about the Dubai Ports deal and about free trade in general. He spoke well, in the abstract, about the importance of freedom. He is an impeccable classicist when it comes to baseball. And that just about does it for me. I'd add the bracing moment of Bush with the bullhorn in the ruins of the World Trade Center, but that was neutered in my memory by his ridiculous, preening appearance in a flight suit on the deck of the aircraft carrier beneath the "Mission Accomplished" sign. The flight-suit image is one of the two defining moments of the Bush failure. The other is the photo of Bush staring out the window of Air Force One, helplessly viewing the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. This is a presidency that has wobbled between those two poles - overweening arrogance and paralytic incompetence.