While Rome Burns- the circus continues!!

Leaders set priorities and try and solve the most vital problems facing their organization.

It is obvious that our elected representatives are not real leaders. Yesterday's Roger Clemens' circus is an excellent example of a lack of leadership.

Our elected officals are more concerned about the use of performance enhancing drugs in major league baseball, than trying to pass legisltation to enable our law enforcement officers to provide real security, or determining how to fix the out of control immigration problems, or helping their constituents to get good paying jobs... in short, they lack the ability and willingness to set priorities and solve them.

The press are equally to blame. Many of the networks had full coverage of the meeting, almost like the McCarthy hearnings, and are more interest in covering the sensational, than the critical events and issues. When they get an issue they beat it death and then move on to other issues and do the same. This approach seems to sell advertising and newspapers so it must be what some of the people want. But it is clearly a waste of time and distracts us from solving key issues.

Time is short, the real issues need to focused on and some solutions found.

Bill Rothschild author of Risktaker, Caretaker, Surgeon Undertaker- the four faces of strategic leadership...available on www.strategyleader.com and AMAZON.