The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Bush reduces the measure of presidential success to the number of people he has personally greeted.
- In plain terms
- He thinks the best way to judge his term is by counting handshakes.
- What can you take from it?
- Simple metrics often fail to capture leadership complexity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we measure leadership?
- Does visibility equal effectiveness?
Another view
It reduces complex governance to surface-level popularity.
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