There is room for only one leader in the White House. A leadership team needs to iron its differences out and present a solid face in public, and this is somet

There is room for only one leader in the White House. A leadership team needs to iron its differences out and present a solid face in public, and this is something you will know to be true from experience. At the end of the day, it is important for the leadership team to display confidence and unity in order to get people to follow them. This doesn't mean you should groupthink or quash dissension. The failure of the Bush Administration was that Bush apparently did not do a good enough job of facilitating a real discussion and let certain folks steamroll Powell. That is not leadership either. In any case, it is wrong for people to fault Powell for what he said at the UN, from a leadership perspective.