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Leadership
«In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
consent, critical, Critical thinking, Personal experience, persuade, persuasiveness
«In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits
«In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.»
Author: Hugh Sidey
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
altar, detector, detectors, era, eras, metal, metals
«In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.»
Author: John J. Sweeney
| About:
Democracy,
Globalization,
Leadership
| Keywords:
authoritarian, globalization, impose, societies, sustained
«It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.»
«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
| About:
Culture,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
| Keywords:
assign, assigning, assigns, build, collect, collects, drum, drummed, drumming, drum up, endless, immensity, Into the Woods, sea, sea a, ship, shipped, shipping, tasks, the Endless, The Sea, wood