The Speaker of the House has been on the news for days now. Coming from a position of power, Nancy Pelosi now faces the embarrassing challenge of undoing what she created in a word-war with the media. Yesterday I described Meghan McCain's positive attributes of a young woman leader, and I would like to comment on how a positively-viewed leader can get into troubled waters by creating a more extreme situation rather than keeping it in a grey area as most politicians would tend to do, till cornered. The media has been in a frenzy (they aren't the only ones) over Pelosi's swinging from "misinformed" to "lied" statements concerning the CIA and no one seems happy. Well, except for maybe the media and some members of our audience.
Alpha Females in positions of power must maintain that power with openness and trust. Unfortunately, this situation risks making Pelosi seem like either an absent-minded participant (she was there but didn't understand what they meant), or as someone who heard what was said but dismissed the significance of what was going on (not good either). Lashing out at the CIA, partaking in the infamous finger-pointing rather than a mea culpa position (I should have known the implications of what was said, but, in my perception, they seemed to be minimized) would have been a more mature attitude. Now that she's in a corner, what can she do to salvage the situation? And furthermore - how can she salvage it with her dignity and the dignity of the CIA intact, if at all possible?
