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Lead yourself first : inspiring leadership through solitude / with a foreword by Jim Collins ; Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin.
Lippincott Library HD57.7 .K47766 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kethledge, Raymond M. (Raymond Michael), 1966- author.
- Erwin, Michael S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Leadership--Case studies.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership.
- PSYCHOLOGY / General.
- Local Subjects:
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership.
- PSYCHOLOGY / General.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 214 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury USA, [2017]
- Summary:
- Cites examples from great leaders in politics, business, sports, and the military to argue that leaders should unplug from daily life and spend time alone to improve clarity and creativity, balance their emotions, and sustain certainty. -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Clarity
- Analytical clarity: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1944
- The stillness of intuition: Jane Goodall, 1960
- Creativity
- "Suppose we were a thing intangible?": T.E. Lawrence, 1917
- Emotional balance
- Acceptance: Abraham Lincoln, 1863
- Catharsis: Ulysses S. Grant, 1864
- Magnanimity: Aung San Suu Kyi, 1990
- Moral courage
- "A sublime power to rise above": Winston Churchill, 1938
- "No never alone": Martin Luther King Jr., 1956
- The dignity not to conform: Pope John Paul II, 1979.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1632866315
- 9781632866318
- OCLC:
- 957021307
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