On Leadership
by John W. Gardner
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A searching examination of leadership as it is practiced, or malpracticed, in America today. Includes the elements of motivation, shared values, social cohesion, and institutional renewal.Tags
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anonymous user The 1993 Free Press edition describes "a new administration" coinciding with "extraordinary opportunities". Who was taking over federal administration in the USA that year? Bill Clinton, who later wrote a book about charitable donations that can be read as a followup to some of Gardner's statements for "leaders from various segments of our national life".
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Excellent chapter review on the development of leadership and the critical need for it.
كتاب جيد يتحدث عن سمات القائد الجيد
وأراه كتاب مفيد للاشخاص الذين يبحثون عن تنمية المهارات القيادية لديهم . فأنصح بقراءتة.
وأراه كتاب مفيد للاشخاص الذين يبحثون عن تنمية المهارات القيادية لديهم . فأنصح بقراءتة.
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John W. Gardner (1912-2002), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was an adviser to presidents and, to many Americans, a personification of citizen participation and volunteerism in a democratic society. Gardner was Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and a member of presidential panels during the Johnson, show more Carter, and Reagan administrations show less
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- 1990
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Brian O'Connell - First words
- [Preface to the Paperback Edition] I made the point in the hardcover edition three years ago that most leaders today accomplish their purposes through (or in spite of) large-scale organized systems.
[Introduction] Why do we not have better leadership? The question is asked over and over. We complain, express our disappointment, often our outrage; but no answer emerges.
Leadership is a word that has risen above normal workaday usage as a conveyor of meaning. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Preface to the Paperback Edition] It is a shaping time in our nation and in the world. We have the opportunity for a new cast at history.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Introduction] We can do better. Much, much better.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If our leaders at all levels are to be capable of lifting us and moving us, they re going to have to believe in the people of this nation--a people so able to perform splendidly and so inclined to perform indifferently, so troubled in their efforts to find a future worthy of their past, so capable of greatness and so desperately in need of encouragement to achieve that greatness.
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