Leadership - Hardcover

Safire, William; Safir, Leonard

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ISBN 10: 0671675362 ISBN 13: 9780671675363

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1990

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Offers a collection of quotations on the nature of leadership by celebrated and successful leaders throughout history

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From Library Journal:

The title of this work is misleading. It is a book of quotations, compiled by New York Times columnist Safire with the help of anthologist Safir, organized under terms from A to Z that may have something to do with management. It begins with "action" and ends with "zero-sum game," and in between one can find "boldness," "dress," "interdependence," "stress," and many others. Under "stress," the only two quotes are: "One of my lawyers once told me to read the sports section first every morning. It talks more about mankind's successes, while other parts talk about mankind's problems or failures" (Michael Milken); and "Remember, you can't make a race horse out of a turtle" (Hans Selye). This is not the first place to go for quotations. Bartlett's or Laurence J. Peter's Peter's Quotations (LJ 9/15/77) would meet most needs. Recommended only for comprehensive business collections.
- Michael D. Kathman, St. John's Univ., Collegeville, Minn.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Unlike most leadership how-tos, this one by New York Times columnist Safire and his brother (co-anthologists of Words of Wisdom and Good Advice ) bypasses conventional tricks of the trade and so-called secrets of success in favor of aphorisms. Many may seem only peripherally related to leadership, but are amusing all the same. From A (Action) to Z (Zero-Sum Game), these kernels of wisdom comprise a provocative sampling of the know-how of past and present intellectual giants and lesser mortals: Virgil, Confucius, Einstein and Churchill hobnob with Joan Rivers and Sam Snead. Major ad/promo.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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