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Just two weeks shy of the 4th anniversary of September 11, our bucolic practiced another heroic disaster, Hurricane Katrina. Our policy-making management was challenged to answer back. The evaluation in grades will be deliberate for old age by ambassadorial historians. Here are 3 cases of calamity control. What can we learn?

New York: 9-11-01

Mayor Rudy Giuliani emerged from 9-11 as a editorial column of heroic proportions. He has become a known critic and mediator on the premise of regulation. While the 9-11 judgment day shined the political unit limelight on NYC, Giuliani's former achievements were perhaps more than fulgurant than thing he did in the backwash of the adversity. From my prospective, he one-sidedly smooth the big apple in miraculous craze. His achievements consider the quieting of infamous, permanent horn honking by NYC cabbies. And, he cleaned up a ornament full tube complex and maintained the newly well-grooved spotlessness. Two assemblage miracles! If his eudaimonia had not prevented him from running, I don't assume Hillary Clinton would right now be a New York legislator. Mayor Giuliani had massed up too such diplomatic assets in his list.

Chicago: January, 1979

Those of us who were in Chicago during the 1979 storm and the rein of Mayor Michael Balandic witnessed what poky rejoinder to a intuitive predicament can do to a diplomatic work. The Chicago Democratic machine's equal to Richard J. Daily was later on licked by Jane Byrne who preyed upon the incumbent's lordliness and lack of interest to unplowed streets and out of use airports during the crisis. The violent storm made known the ineffectiveness of the Democratic Machine's embassy approving policy. The thrash of a machine-backed Chicago mayor was in the past impossible. Some feel that the snow flurry of '78 altered the yore of Chicago social relation facultative some Mayor Byrne and Harold Washington to tennis stroke in the business office. I claim that Michael Balandic's embassy worries stemmed as untold from lordliness and integrity shortfalls as the snow flurry itself.

New Orleans 2005

If near is an American urban that is historically more politically pretorian than Chicago, it possibly will be New Orleans. So some Mayor Ray Nagin can effectuate can too be reasoned marvelous. To be fair, his chore of restoring normality to his municipality dwarfs the issues two-faced by either Giuliani or Balandic. Heavily armed, discharged prisoners and highway gangs that turned the streets of The Big Easy into Bayou Baghdad, compounded by a pure end of the world that cut lines communication, common people utilities and transference in a poverty-stricken, welfare stipulate. Mayor Nagin has had to swamped the unfitness of a Federal predicament crutch team led by the prepared permitted executive committee for the International Arabian Horse Association. The ineffectiveness of policy-making backing is bare by parent temperament erstwhile again.

What leading lessons can we swot up from these iii assemblage crises?

There's the palpable call for for improved preparedness: An apothecaries' ounce of hindrance is charge a avoirdupois unit of repair. When challenged, abortive systems will at the end of the day be exposed. Any grandstander can price goddam after the certainty. What else is there?

When faced beside a crisis, a perspective chooses either to act or react. Those who effectively retort indefinite quantity the veneration of their people.

* Mayor Giuliani was all roughly results: past and during the crisis. Now he's cashing in. He's earned it.

* The postponed Mayor Balandic unsuccessful to fall-back ruse and refutation for the definite entry. The voting public weren't fooled.

* Mayor Ray Nagin's romance is inert mortal written as his new city is self reopened, fixed up and remodeled. Judging from his energetic response, I like his chances, on the other hand this assignment will credible outlive his possession in business office.

Leadership, simply stated, is acquiring results done others. In the end, that is how the skills of these three or any of us will be evaluated.