While I am not a supporter of George W. Bush’s politics and feel that he let down his country and the world as president, I appreciated and learnt from his talk at the NRF retail’s Big Ideas Show conference a few days ago. He was there to talk about leadership. In fact he said: I don’t need you to agree with me or what I did but to just understand what got me to that point. I found him compelling to listen to – but I was not expecting to. This is a takeaway for me – people when you hear them speak for themselves or away from a 15 second sound bite on TV news pr not being represented by others who gossip about you or tell others what you have said on a topic can be more interesting and more understood.