"Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well."

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Source : Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

Frances Hesselbein

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“[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.”
“Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
“Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?”
“That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.”
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
“By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.”
“It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.”

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