Occupation: Historian Birth: August 3, 1918 Death: July 15, 2014
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intr….
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennob….
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth..
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institution….
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another..
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students defi….
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people ….
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality..
Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of mot….
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs..
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons..
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power..
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others..
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique..