10 Reasons Why Calgarians Love Nenshi (or, How to Be a Leader)

Leanne Shirtliffe: 10 Reasons Why Calgarians Love Nenshi (or, How to Be a Leader)By Leanne Shirtliffe at huffingtonpost.ca

I’ve heard it said that a person’s true personality comes out in a crisis. If that’s true, then thousands of people may well have fallen (further) in love with Calgary’s own Mayor Nenshi these past few days.

When Nenshi ran for mayor three years ago, he wasn’t a serious contender according to the pollsters. Still, my husband and I put a sign on our lawn, believing that this Harvard-educated, articulate, and worldly young Calgarian was the future we wanted for our city.

He won the election.

Convincingly.

But in the crushing crisis of this Flood of the Century, I realize that it’s Calgarians who’ve won.

Here are 10 Reasons Why Calgarians Love Mayor Nenshi (or, How To Be a Leader in Whatever You Do):

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