Lead yourself first
Subtitle: inspiring leadership through solitude
By: Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin ; with a foreword by Jim Collins
Contributors: Erwin, Michael S., author
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781632866318
Subjects: Leadership; Case studies
Description: 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. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Clarity; title: Analytical clarity: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1944; title: The stillness of intuition: Jane Goodall, 1960; title: Creativity; title: "Suppose we were a thing intangible?": T.E. Lawrence, 1917; title: Emotional balance; title: Acceptance: Abraham Lincoln, 1863; title: Catharsis: Ulysses S. Grant, 1864; title: Magnanimity: Aung San Suu Kyi, 1990; title: Moral courage; title: "A sublime power to rise above": Winston Churchill, 1938; title: "No never alone": Martin Luther King Jr., 1956; title: The dignity not to conform: Pope John Paul II, 1979.