Screen LibraryLead yourself first : inspiring leadership through solitude /
Cites examples from great leaders in politics, business, sports, and the military to argue that leaders should unplug from daily life and spend time alone to improve clarity and creativity, balance their emotions, and sustain certainty. --
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Bloomsbury USA,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2017 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Cites examples from great leaders in politics, business, sports, and the military to argue that leaders should unplug from daily life and spend time alone to improve clarity and creativity, balance their emotions, and sustain certainty. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 214 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781632866325 1632866323 9781632866318 1632866315 |
| Index Number: | HD57 |
| CLC: | C933 |
| Call Number: | C933/K433 |
| Contents: | Clarity -- Analytical clarity: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1944 -- The stillness of intuition: Jane Goodall, 1960 -- Creativity -- "Suppose we were a thing intangible?": T.E. Lawrence, 1917 -- Emotional balance -- Acceptance: Abraham Lincoln, 1863 -- Catharsis: Ulysses S. Grant, 1864 -- Magnanimity: Aung San Suu Kyi, 1990 -- Moral courage -- "A sublime power to rise above": Winston Churchill, 1938 -- "No never alone": Martin Luther King Jr., 1956 -- The dignity not to conform: Pope John Paul II, 1979. |