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Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead

by Sam M. Intrator, Megan Scribner (Editor)

Other authors: Winston O. Abbott (Contributor), Karen E. Adams (Contributor), Bonnie Allen (Contributor), Tom Allen (Contributor), Yehuda Amichai (Contributor)157 more, Molly D. Anderson (Contributor), David Brooks Andrews (Contributor), Ibn Arabi (Contributor), W. H. Auden (Contributor), James A. Autry (Contributor), William Ayot (Contributor), Tammy Baldwin (Contributor), James Banks (Contributor), Harry Barnes (Contributor), Paul Batalden (Contributor), Tom Beech (Contributor), Geoff Bellman (Contributor), Martha Bergmark (Contributor), Wendell Berry (Contributor), Joan Blades (Contributor), William Blake (Contributor), Rebecca van der Bogert (Contributor), John C. Bogle (Contributor), Linda K. Bowen (Contributor), Judy Brown (Contributor), Robert Browning (Contributor), Adam Bunting (Contributor), Jim Burke (Contributor), Lois Capps (Contributor), Linda Chamberlain (Contributor), Carol Tecla Christ (Contributor), Thomas B. Coburn (Contributor), Billy Collins (Contributor), Dean Conway (Contributor), Orli Cotel (Contributor), Robert Creeley (Contributor), Countee Cullen (Contributor), Carla M. Dahl (Contributor), Sandra P. Daley (Contributor), Patricia E. de Jong (Contributor), Tony Deifell (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Kyle Dodson (Contributor), Brian Dunlap (Contributor), Craig Dykstra (Contributor), Amelia Earhart (Contributor), T. S. Eliot (Contributor), Henry Emmons (Contributor), Ted Falcon (Contributor), Kevin Fickenscher (Contributor), Betty Sue Flowers (Contributor), Robert Frost (Contributor), Nicole Gagnon (Contributor), David J. Garren (Contributor), Ghalib (Contributor), Charles Gibbs (Contributor), Jack Gilbert (Contributor), Kathleen Gille (Contributor), Hafiz (Contributor), Thich Nhat Hanh (Contributor), Janet Tiebout Hanson (Contributor), Pat Moore Harbour (Contributor), Robert Hayden (Contributor), Seamus Heaney (Contributor), William Ernest Henley (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), Barbara Hummel (Contributor), Peter Karoff (Contributor), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Contributor), Jim Kielsmeier (Contributor), Martin Luther King, Jr. (Contributor), Kathleen Kostelny (Contributor), Annie Goeke de La Bouillerie (Contributor), Lao Tzu (Contributor), David C. Leach (Contributor), Liz Lerman (Contributor), Denise Levertov (Contributor), Ted Lord (Contributor), Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer (Contributor), Louis MacNiece (Contributor), Paul Mariani (Contributor), John Marston (Contributor), Irene Martin (Contributor), Eugene McCarthy (Contributor), Jim McDermott (Contributor), Brian D. McLaren (Contributor), Gabriela Mistral (Contributor), Wayne Muller (Contributor), Ann Myers (Contributor), Reb Nachman (Contributor), Ezzeddin Nasafi (Contributor), Holly Near (Contributor), Mark Nepo (Contributor), Pablo Neruda (Contributor), Reinhold Nieburh (Contributor), Henri J. M. Nouwen (Contributor), Naomi Shihab Nye (Contributor), John O'Donohue (Contributor), James O'Leary (Contributor), Mary Oliver (Contributor), Parker J. Palmer (Introduction), Kenneth Patchen (Contributor), Eboo Patel (Contributor), Marge Piercy (Contributor), Peter Pollard (Contributor), Eileen Quinn (Contributor), Jamal Rahman (Contributor), Elizabeth A. Keene Reder (Contributor), Adrienne Rich (Contributor), Rainer Maria Rilke (Contributor), L. J. Rittenhouse (Contributor), Theodore Roethke (Contributor), James E. Rogers (Contributor), Liz Rosenberg (Contributor), Rumi (Contributor), Lee Rush (Contributor), May Sarton (Contributor), Howie Schaffer (Contributor), Claudia Schmidt (Contributor), Peter Schneider (Contributor), Jake B. Schrum (Contributor), Pamela Seigle (Contributor), Peter Senge (Contributor), Robert W. Service (Contributor), William Shakespeare (Contributor), Hanna B. Sherman (Contributor), Billy Shore (Contributor), Rosemary Jordano Shore (Contributor), Charles Simic (Contributor), Michael Singleton (Contributor), Jay F. Smith (Contributor), Gary Snyder (Contributor), Sterling K. Speirn (Contributor), Stephen Spender (Contributor), William Stafford (Contributor), Wallace Stevens (Contributor), Joseph L. Subbiondo (Contributor), Wislawa Szymborska (Contributor), Rabindranath Tagore (Contributor), Doug Tanner (Contributor), Betsy Taylor (Contributor), Peter S. Temes (Contributor), Alfred Lord Tennyson (Contributor), Nevin Compton Trammell (Contributor), Estrus Tucker (Contributor), Karen Lee Turner (Contributor), David Wagoner (Contributor), Diana Chapman Walsh (Contributor), Eric Walsh (Contributor), Bill White (Contributor), Walt Whitman (Contributor), David Whyte (Afterword), Dan Wieden (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), John Wimmer (Contributor), Linda Wolfe (Contributor), Robert (Chip) Wood (Contributor), William Wordsworth (Contributor), Mary Beth Yarrow (Contributor), William Butler Yeats (Contributor), Daisy Zamora (Contributor), Carol Prejean Zippert (Contributor)

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Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of  ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The contributors represent a wide range of professions including Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, several members of Congress, Christian activist Brian McLaren, business guru Peter Senge, and many other leaders from business, medicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics and government, and religion. In their reflections, these leaders explore how they have been inspired by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Rumi, May Sarton, Wallace Stevens, Wendell Berry, and Rainer Maria Rilke. "Leading from Within is perhaps the most soulful treatment of leadership ever composed. Leadership is first an inner quest, and there is absolutely no better place to explore your inner territory than in the pages of this book. This is an evocative work of art; do yourself an immense favor, and engage with these amazing and diverse leaders and their poems." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and A Leader's Legacy "Leading from Within makes brilliant use of the world's great poets to inspire us to lead with our hearts as well as our heads. It calls to the deeper purpose and meaning within all of us to use our gifts to serve others." --Bill George, author, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership "This is a superb collection of poems and deeply personal reflections from a wide range of real leaders. It is a gift to all of us who believe in bringing our hearts to our work." --Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) "The entries in this wonderful anthology are a joy to read and all the more interesting because of their special meaning to the leaders who recommended them. It is a book that every nonprofit leader should place among those they draw upon for inspiration every day." --Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector "Leading from Within offers a candid view straight into the heart and soul of leaders striving to do good and effective work in the world. The poems and commentaries remind us that leadership is always deeply personal and chock-full of dilemmas that must be addressed by creativity, passion, imagination, and courage." --Jeff Swartz, president and CEO, Timberland… (more)
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Like fraternal twins, each pari of facing pages introduces you to magically close companions-an inspired practitioner and a poet who lit the leader's fuse or touched his or her soul. Each touched a deep place in the leader within me.-Dan Mulhern, author, Everyday Leadership: Gettings results in Business, Politics, and Life

'Do you wnat to be a more effective, courageous leader? Then read this book. (You may) realize that you must lead with your heart as well as your mind to inspire people to willingly follow.'-Peter Roy, former president, Whole Foods Market, and coauthor, The Book of Hard Choices

Leadership is more than princiiples or practices-it requires heart, courage, and wisdom, qualities that can be inspired and informed by poetry.

In this beautiful colleciton of 93 poems, accompanied by a brief personal commentary, leaders reflect on how poetry helps them make sense of the challenges and possibilities in their work. The contributors represent a wide range of professions including Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, several members of congress, Christian activist Brian McLaren, business guru Peter Senge, and leaders from business, midicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics, and religion. The poems include works by well-loved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Rumi, Langston Hughes, May Sarton, Pablo Neruda, Rainier Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, and Wendell Berry. As they did for teachers in their best-selling book Teaching with Fire, Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner inspire and nourish the hearts and souls of leaders of all kinds in Leading from Within.

Sam M. Intrator is a professor at Smith College and founder of the Smith College Urban Education Initiative. A Kellogg National Laedership Fellow, he is the author/editor of five books, including Tuned In and Fired Up, Teaching with Fire, and Stories of the Courage to Teach.

Megan scribner is an editor who also documents and evaluates programs for nonprofits. She is the coeditor of Teaching with Fire and coauthor with Parker J. Palmer of The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal, Tenth Anniversary Edition.

Contents

Foreword by Madeleine K. albright
A note to our readers by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner
Introducion by Parker J. Palmer
I Called
Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'
Emily Dicknson's ''Hope' is the thing with feathers'
Langston Hughes's 'Madam's calling card'
William Stafford's 'The way it is'
William Carlos Williams's 'Asphodel, that greeny flower'
Reinhold Niebuhr's 'The irony of American history'
Judy Brown's 'Trough'
Rumi's 'Childhood friends'
Langston Hughes's 'Mother to son'
Yehuda Amichai's 'End of Elul'
Carol Prejean Zippert's 'When you get lost'
Henry Nouwen's 'Work around your abyss'
Gabriela Mistral's 'Daybreak/Amanecer'
Mark Nepo's 'Accepting this'
II Pay attention
David Wagoner's 'Lost'
Rainer Maria Rilke's 'I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough'
John O'Donohue's 'Fluent'
Tao Ching's '#33'
David Whyte's 'The opening of eyes'
William Ernest Henley's 'Invictus'
Nevin Compton Trammell's 'I'm tired, I'm whipped'
Yehuda Amichai's 'The diameter of the bomb'
Rainer Maria Rilke's 'The panther'
William Stafford's 'With Kit, age 7, at the beach'
Pablo Neruda's 'XXXI'
William Butler Yeats's 'The lover pleads with his friend for old friends'
Robert Frost's 'Mending wall'
III The real bottom line
Mary Oliver's 'The ponds'
Wallace Stevens's 'The pleasures of merely circulationg'
Robert Frost's 'The road not taken'
Chalres Simic's 'Stone'
Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'
W.H. Auden's 'After reading a child's guide to modern physics'
Paul Mariani's 'The peaceble kingdom'
Stephen Spender's 'The truly great'
Rabindranath Tagore's 'The grasp of our hand'
Mary Oliver's 'What I have learned so far'
Billy Collins's 'The night house'
IV Dare to endure
Robert Browning's 'Andrea del Sarto'
Exxeddin Nasafi's 'Oh, my friend'
Jack Gilbert's 'The abnormal is not courage'
Ibn Arabi's 'There was a time I would reject those'
Winsotn O. Abott's 'Let me remember'
Rumi's 'What is this fragrance'
Reb Nachman's 'The entire world is a very narrow bridge'
Seamus Heaney's 'The cure at Troy'
Kenneth Patchen's 'In order to'
William Butler Yeats's 'Earth, fire and water'
Holly Near's 'The rock will wear away'
V Leading together
Robert Creeley's 'The warning'
Langston Hughes's 'Let America be America again' and 'Yet do I marvel'
Walt Whitman's 'Song of the open road'
Louis MacNeice's 'Snow'
Emimly Dickiinson's 'I dwell in possibility'
Wislawa Szymborska's 'A note'
Claudia Schmidt's 'Replenish'
Liz Rosenberg's 'In the end we are all light'
May Sarton's 'All souls'
Hafiz's 'How do I listen?'
Emily dickinson's 'Tell all the turth but tell it slant'
Robert Service's 'The spell of the Yukon'
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'The drum major instinct'
VI Back at it
Thich Nhat Hanh's 'For warmth'
Robert Frost's 'Directive'
Judy Brown's 'Fire'
Daisy zamora's 'Song of hope'
Lao Tzu's 'The uses of not'
Naomi Shihab Nye's 'Kindness'
Robert Hayden's 'Those winter Sundays'
William Wordsworth's 'Tintern abbey'
Wendell Berry's 'The peace of wild hings'
William Stafford's 'Silver star'
Alfred Lord tennyson's 'Ulysses'
VII Leading with fire: Using poetry in oiur life and work
Afterword by david whyte
Gratitudes
Center for courage & renewal
The editors
Credits
  AikiBib | May 29, 2022 |
This book makes brilliant use of the world's great poets to inspire us to lead with our hearts as well as our heads. It calls us to the deeper purpose and meaning within all of us to use our gifts to serve others.
  PendleHillLibrary | Jun 12, 2018 |
"Leadership is first an inner quest, and there is absolutely no better place to explore your inner territory than in the pages of this book (Jim Kouzes)." "This is a superb collection of poems and deeply personal reflections from a wide range of real leaders (Rep. John Lewis)." These quotes are taken from the back page. ( )
  strawberrycreekmtg | Nov 6, 2013 |
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Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of  ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work. The contributors represent a wide range of professions including Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, several members of Congress, Christian activist Brian McLaren, business guru Peter Senge, and many other leaders from business, medicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics and government, and religion. In their reflections, these leaders explore how they have been inspired by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Rumi, May Sarton, Wallace Stevens, Wendell Berry, and Rainer Maria Rilke. "Leading from Within is perhaps the most soulful treatment of leadership ever composed. Leadership is first an inner quest, and there is absolutely no better place to explore your inner territory than in the pages of this book. This is an evocative work of art; do yourself an immense favor, and engage with these amazing and diverse leaders and their poems." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and A Leader's Legacy "Leading from Within makes brilliant use of the world's great poets to inspire us to lead with our hearts as well as our heads. It calls to the deeper purpose and meaning within all of us to use our gifts to serve others." --Bill George, author, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership "This is a superb collection of poems and deeply personal reflections from a wide range of real leaders. It is a gift to all of us who believe in bringing our hearts to our work." --Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) "The entries in this wonderful anthology are a joy to read and all the more interesting because of their special meaning to the leaders who recommended them. It is a book that every nonprofit leader should place among those they draw upon for inspiration every day." --Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector "Leading from Within offers a candid view straight into the heart and soul of leaders striving to do good and effective work in the world. The poems and commentaries remind us that leadership is always deeply personal and chock-full of dilemmas that must be addressed by creativity, passion, imagination, and courage." --Jeff Swartz, president and CEO, Timberland

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