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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing read more
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate read more
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized read more
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
