I struggled with a large chartreuse streamer fly, breaking leader tippet after leader tippet with clumsy knots, until, reduced to muttering under my breath, I managed to tie one properly.
Do these monstrous annual endurance tests make and break leaders?
Once war had broken out, leaders and led alike found ways of justifying and legitimising what had shortly before been unthinkable.
Yes, team leaders need to give and receive constant feedback, but it's their actions that can make or break a leader.
"They broke the leader's heart and gave the friends of the Islamic republic almost a seizure," said Mojtaba Zolnour, a special consultant to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency reported.
June 3: If the Texas-bred songwriter and rocker James McMurtry was a visual artist, he'd be Thomas Nast, the nineteenth-century political cartoonist whose "damn pictures" (as Boss Tweed called them) could make or break a leader.
Is history made by great, mould-breaking leaders, or is change - both for the better and for the worse - more likely the result of a coming together of larger social forces?
In response, the militias shifted their focus, demanding that the prime minister, Ali Zidan, and other ministers be removed and replaced by "revolutionaries".Last week the government got a rare break: leaders in former rebel towns met to distance themselves from the militiamen, and in Tripoli, the capital, angry protesters marched on the foreign ministry, causing the gunmen to retreat.
