Managing oneself properly

Dwight Eisenhower was the general of the allied troops in Europe during the World War. One of the brilliant things about him was that he was fantastic at holding news conferences. Whenever a question was asked, he would have all the data, encapsulated in two-three very elegant sentences. But when he became the President, people found that he got very negative press because most of the press people felt that this guy was incoherent. He never listened to any questions. You asked him one thing and he went off on a tangent on some thing else. This surprised many people.
"While researching the anomaly, they found that Eisenhower the general, when he was leading the allied troops in Europe, got his deputies to ask the journalists to submit their questions at least half a day before the press conference. The deputies used to write out all the facts and detailed answers, which they presented to Eisenhower. He would then read out these answers and, therefore, put up a great performance before the media fraternity. When Eisenhower became President, he obviously could not perform in impromptu press conferences because he was not good at listening. And he had no readymade answers.