Sentences with phrase «of great leaders from»

Where is the horse, the steed that bears the triumphant general, the untamable champion loyal only to the skilled commander, so beloved of great leaders from Alexander to Napoleon?

You'll attempt to out do some of the greatest leaders from world history as you decide whether to be a feared warlord or a skilled diplomat with your competitors.

Not exact matches

One more ingredient is needed, beyond focus and people, to move from good to great: you have to build a culture where questioning leaders and decisions — including those of the CEO — is OK, it's embraced and it's rewarded.

What differentiates great leaders from the rest is they not only have plenty of ideas but also commit to carrying them out.

The arrangement gave the company a great deal of social control, since Steinway could evict strike leaders from company housing.

In any organization, knowledge is power, and great leaders ensure that every employee, from the very top to the very bottom of the org chart, is provided with complete and up - to - date information about the organization's goals, performance, successes and failures.

The bureaucracy in Brussels is largely made up of officials from the smaller countries, who saw the EU as a method of enabling themselves to exercise far greater influence than they could as leaders in their own governments.

And take it from some of the greatest leaders of today.

The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

At the same time, one of the aspects that set great leaders apart from the pack is that they tend to have special skills — particularly the ability to see over the next hill and make connections and correlations that the rest of us can't.

Here are 10 tips for business owners gleaned from the lives of America's greatest military leaders.

In this candid conversation, Shopify's Harley Finkelstein — one of the most influential and innovative young business leaders in Canada today — shares his experiences scaling Shopify from a scrappy startup to a world - leading provider of commerce solutions, covering, among other things, the key operational, strategic and culture components that differentiate truly great businesses from those that are merely good.

Second City Works recently surveyed a group of North American full - time employees to pinpoint the habits that in their minds separate loathsome supervisors from great leaders.

The insights that follow feature some powerful pairings: business partners, government leaders, heads of foundations, mentors, mentees, friends, and something greater — all share a willingness to learn from one another and grow wise together.

As long as you remain committed, and aren't afraid of challenging or changing yourself, there's nothing that can stop you from becoming a great leader.

And despite lessons learned from the economic crisis — where, arguably, too many extroverted risk - takers in leadership positions wrought financial ruin — and the value of having quiet leaders who, as Good to Great author Jim Collins puts it, «build not their own egos but the institutions they run,» a workplace stigma around introversion still exists.

«What differentiates David from a lot of bankers is he's a great leader and manager,» Alan Schwartz, the former CEO of Bear Stearns and now executive chairman at Guggenheim Partners, told Reuters in 2011.

Great leaders understand the value of active listening and get the most benefit from what others have to share.

It's been a long summer for Labor Leader Bill Shorten, who in eight weeks seems to have run the full gamut of Queen's greatest hits, from I Want it All to Under Pressure.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

«The most effective leaders throughout history have been great communicators, yet the vast majority of modern day C - Suite executives are conspicuously absent from social media channels,» said Ann Charles, CEO of BRANDfog.

The Company of Young Professionals program fosters an environment where millennials can learn from seasoned business leaders while forging long - lasting relationships with other young professionals,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the greatest advents in fintech from leaders and visionaries in the worlds of

Some of the exciting events that will be held during The Great American Trucking Show are: Overdrive's Pride and Polish Truck Beauty Competition, Educational Sessions sponsored by TXTA, the Commercial Vehicle Outlook, exhibits from leaders in the heavy duty trucking industry and much more.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, participated in a pre-NAFTA delegation on January 22 in Montreal that brought together the leaders of chambers of commerce from across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Your post reminded of Linsky and Heifetz's wise words from «Leadership on the Line» — great leaders disappoint people at the rate they can handle it.

From the 101 authentic leaders profiled in «Discover Your True North», we learned many new things about how leaders grow: the importance of turning your crucibles into opportunities for post-traumatic growth; becoming self - aware through introspection, mindfulness and honest feedback; taking the «I to We» journey to become a leader who serves a greater purpose; and building your global intelligence (GQ) as a global leader.

In fact, leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with «where» but with «who.»

The results were so disastrous that the trade war prolonged the Great Depression, contributed to the rise of Nazis and other fascist leaders, and sank US exports by 61 % from 1929 to 1933 before being repealed in 1934.

Over the years, (I am now in my mid - 60's) I have had to leave 4 different churches because of issues of «bullying»... usually from those who were in positions of of great «power» Lay - leaders, Bishops, administrators, choir - «Masters», and even pastors and now my own Priest.

Because I am tired of church leaders with expensive church buildings and bloated church budgets trying to shore up their ineffective church programs by demanding further sacrifice and greater commitments from tired and weary church members.

Not only was he one of the great leaders of the American Revolution, he was also one who spoke from within the glorious French Revolution.

Thus, party leaders generally deem the voting scorecards from the NRA or NARAL of greater relevance than more widely held opinions.

I invited a handful of pastors and church leaders from different ethnic backgrounds to reflect upon their experiences within the evangelical church or to suggest steps Christians could take towards greater reconciliation.

Parallels continue in the matter of a great deal of drunkenness, licentiousness, and secularism on the one hand, and on the other, internal bickerings among the leaders as to the best policy of protection from their enemies.

King famously marched with the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and spoke often of the lessons he drew from the Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi and the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Whenever I felt that our obedience to or admiration of a leader was too great, this explanation was always used... that we were serving God, not the person in authority who was benefiting from...

In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money for the arts.

Whenever I felt that our obedience to or admiration of a leader was too great, this explanation was always used... that we were serving God, not the person in authority who was benefiting from it.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

CAFOD's local partner, Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of the Catholic diocese of Tombura - Yambio, recently conducted a meeting of religious leaders and governors from nine counties of South Sudan to seek ways of «promoting greater peace and prosperity to the present and future generation».

While obviously not all our political leaders have been churchmen or students of the Bible, its words and its spirit breathe through the great political utterances of our heritage from Washington and Jefferson through Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln and to the «four freedoms» of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

From the perspective of this kind of salvation history, both church leaders and churches are of great importance because the American democracy represents God's plan for the world.

Such concentration of power, which is meant to shield the powerful from the vulnerability of accountability, actually creates far greater vulnerabilities, putting both the leader and the community in greater danger.

I was privileged to join this collaboration of 4,000 leaders from 200 countries to engage the great causes of our time.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

doubtful jesus ever lived, no good evidence if he ever did live, he didn't do any magic tricks from the bible, he was just a cult leader the fictional character of jesus said some great things about love, but also supported slavery and other awful things

From Jeremiah and other great prophets, the Jews learned that God would some day send a Very Special Person — an «anointed one» (in Hebrew, mahsiah, «Messiah»)-- who as their leader would put everything right, and establish the rule of God among all peoples.

Reading all of these people's comments gives one an image of a great tide of humanity washing in and out of an institution that does not have the rigid membership boundaries often perceived by church leaders who look at the church from the inside out (and who are responsible for keeping the statistics).

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