As I noted in an earlier post, I’m a fan of Secretary Clinton.  This intel from a recent post on Foreign Policy’s “The Cable” blog helps explain why:

Clinton is drawing praise from some State Department officials for making a real effort to show her appreciation for staff.

The secretary is doing thank-yous to the people who worked on her recent trips, one senior State Department official told The Cable. “She invited the drafters and desk officers from [the South Asia] bureau, Holbrooke’s office and the European bureau up this morning to the Treaty Room to say thanks and shake everyone’s hand. Unprecedented. I understand she’s done this four or five times, including for her Mexico trip.”

She also came down to shake hands and thank people from the Near East Asia bureau after her Sharm el-Sheikh trip, Middle East hands noted.

“I do think the secretary has been a real good thing for morale in the building,” another senior State Department official said. “She goes out of her way to show appreciation.”

That’s leadership.

(And it reminds me of something Samuel Goldwyn once said:  “When someone does something good, applaud!  You will make two people happy.”)