"Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea."

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Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

Laurie Beth Jones

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“The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how can we continue to do what we've done in the past without understanding that what made them successful is to take risks, to change and to adapt and to be responsive. And so in a sense success breeds its own failure. And I think it's true of a lot of successful businesses.”
“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”

Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.”
“I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.”
“People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not-it's everlasting.”
“Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.”
“We love disasters that have nothing to do with us”

Source : Mark Doty (1993). “My Alexandria: Poems”, p.1, University of Illinois Press
“Why do people feel things and go places, tell me if you know.”

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.26, Macmillan

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