Obama's Secrets of Success Revealed

You have to grant Barack Obama two things: He has accomplished a meteoric rise to the verge of vast power, and he's managed an innovative political organization that energized millions of people and raised even more millions of dollars. And regardless of where you stand on his fitness to be president, he has the fitness part of it down pat.

And on those grounds you can learn a lot from him, even if you didn't flick the lever for him on Election Day. Here's some of what we learned in an August interview.