2012 Consular Leadership Day Theme Follow Courageously Just Not Peter Van Buren The Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) recently announced its new leadership theme for 2012 which is "Follow Courageously." CA, of course, is the home bureau of some of our consular officers who offended the tigers with their blogs -- MLC , Peter Van Buren , to name a couple. Others will remain unnamed in this blog, no sense dragging the blog carcasses out in the open. The consular officers are natural targets; they are some with the most interesting stories in the Foreign Service. But its a love/hate relationship, see? Anyway, one of our friends inside the Big House excitedly told us this years theme of following courageously. I said, hey, what does �Follow Courageously� mean? Here is what Im told: The CA Leadership Tenets describe it as the ability to �take ownership of our work and hold ourselves accountable for improving performance and making our organization stronger,� and...