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For Every Talent That Poverty Has Stimulated It Has Blighted A Hundred.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

If One Defines The Term 'dropout' To Mean A Person Who Has Given Up Serious Effort To Meet His Responsibilities, Then Every Business Office, Government Agency, Golf Club And University Faculty Would Yield Its Quota.

All That We Know About The Interaction Between Leaders And Constituents Or Followers Tells Us That Communication And Influence Flow In Both Directions; And In That Two-way Communication, Nonrational, Nonverbal, And Unconscious Elements Play Their Part.

One Generalization That Is Supported Both By Research And Experience Is That Effective Two-way Communication Is Essential To Proper Functioning Of The Leader-follower Relationship.