昨天在哈佛肯尼迪学院听了David Gergen 教授关于领导力的讲座，很受欢迎。200多人的大教室全部坐满。Gergen一方面在CCN做专题评论员，一方面在哈佛大学做教授。职业生涯里面服务过4位美国总统，是美国有影响力的人物。他的讲座很生动，有很多和学生的互动，学生都是来自世界各地的精英，现场很活跃。结合前天美国总统奥巴马的国情咨文演讲，他引导学生对奥巴马的领导力进行了分析。大家讨论中指出奥巴马的演讲展现了其领导力的一面，有主张有妥协，但也有新的对美国巨额赤字的应对措施的不足。由奥巴马讲开，谈到了具备领导力的素质问题。大家一共提出了10多个具有领导力的条件，包括信心，性格，能力，勇气，激情，原则性，灵活性，应变能力，判断能力，国际观，团队合作等等。 David 还引用了一句英文的俗语说明团队的重要性：

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go afar, go together! (如果你想走得快，可以一个人，如果你想走的远，必须一块走！）强调了合作的重要性，我认为这句话是很有道理的。

David的简历非常多元化, 从美国海军驻外士兵，相当于海外插队经历，到政府官员，总统顾问，大学教授，媒体专家等，非常多元化。大学需要更多这样的教授，其详细的简历如下：

David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has served as an adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of its Center for Public Leadership.

In 2000, he published the best-selling book, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.

Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, where his father taught mathematics at Duke University. He graduated with honors from both Yale College (1963) and Harvard Law School (1967), and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for nearly three and a half years, posted to a ship in Japan.

Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, a group of heavyweights that included Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein, and Bill Safire. Two years later, he took over as director. Gergen went on to become the Director of Communications for Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, a counselor on domestic and foreign affairs for Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, and an adviser to the 1980 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign.

In his private life, Gergen works as a political journalist and analyst. He was the first managing editor of Public Opinion, a magazine affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, and from 1985-1986 he worked as an editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he remains an editor-at-large. Gergen’s career in television began in 1985, when he joined the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for Friday night discussions of politics. Today, he appears frequently on CNN as an analyst for Anderson Cooper 360 and Situation Room.

Gergen joined the Harvard faculty in 1999. He is active as a speaker on leadership and sits on many boards, including Teach for America, the Aspen Institute, and Duke University, where he taught from 1995-1999. He is a member of the Washington D.C. Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds 18 honorary degrees.

Gergen lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife Anne, a family therapist. They have two children, Christopher and Katherine, and four grandchildren. 

For more information about David Gergen's role at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at the Center for Public Leadership, please visit http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership

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