John Montgomery has been the editor and publisher of The Hutchinson News since 2006. He was previously editor and publisher of The Hays Daily News and The Ottawa Herald. Now in its 141st year, the paper covers 36 counties in central and southwest Kansas. A regular writer of the newspaper’s editorials, Montgomery considers being informed a critical component of exercising leadership. “It's important to leadership to be an independent thinker and to be able to see the complexity of an issue and to see that it's not just black and white. Traditionally, good leaders have always been good consensus builders. There aren't many of those in our leadership in government these days, but I still think that's an important leadership quality.”
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