This story in the WSJ takes a look at Obama's leadership style:
As that suggests, we may not yet know the details of Mr. Obama's economic-stimulus plan or his policy toward Iran, but we have learned a lot during the transition about the kind of president he will be and the kind of administration he will run.
The period has been instructive as much for what hasn't been said as for what has been said. Little has been said about "delegating power" or "cabinet government," phrases thrown about in past transitions to suggest decision-making would be decentralized so the president can save his time and brain cells for just a few items.
Instead, it is clear that the center of Barack Obama's administration will be Barack Obama himself. There will be more people with big feet on his White House staff than in an NBA locker room.
Beyond that, he intends to be not just commander in chief but communicator in chief, handling both the substantive and the inspirational messages, taking advantage of new communications technologies, and likely mixing it up with the press more than his predecessor did. Read the whole thing.
