The Leadership We Need

Michael Slaby
Nov 1 · 7 min read

This time last year, we were all preparing for a Blue Wave midterm election that I worried we’d misinterpret. I wondered what it might take for us to win AND turn away from our mean, self-centered, power-centered politics and whether the 2020 primary might offer a new story of redemption that might help us reclaim our civic life. But our current path and the stories we are being offered about who we are and who we can be feel as small as ever.

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Michael Slaby

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Technology, politics, and saving the world in various combinations — Chief Strategist at Harmony Labs— Former CTO/CIIO at Obama for America.

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