Sentences with phrase «of this great leader who»

«The entire scientific community is mourning the sudden and untimely loss of this great leader who has been unexpectedly removed from the forefront of the scientific issues that matter most to the future well - being of society,» said Marcia McNutt, Cicerone's successor as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Not exact matches

If entrepreneurs who have the passion and innovation to start their own businesses can develop these five skills of great leaders, they will be most effective in leadingthose businessess into growth and a bright future.

But I was especially interested in the last section of her talk, which focused on what she feels are the factors that consistently — and often abruptly — derail great leaders who looked to the outside world to be cruising along.

But the leader who asks this question of employees sees something even greater: the patterns of strengths, the early warning signs of deficiencies, and the opportunities and possibilities yet to be seized across the organization.

None of the great business leaders I've known and worked with over the decades are defined by who they are.

The Republicans who control the U.S. Congress and Germany's Angela Merkel are the most guilty, but former prime minister Stephen Harper was also among the leaders who refused to err on the side of growth, even though the International Monetary Fund said Canada could have afforded greater spending.

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.

Henna Inam of Transformational Leadership: «As a leader facing double standards, you have to decide who you are going to be that best inspires yourself and serves the greater good.

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.

«I don't know if is all [man's fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,» Pope Francis, No. 4 on Fortune's list of the world's greatest leaders, told Reuters earlier this year.

But whatever happened in the boardrooms of Apple, his next piece of advice is a valuable one for any good leader who wants to surround themselves with top talent and retain those skilled workers: «If you want to hire great people and want them to stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas, and not hierarchy.»

«As an Egyptian immigrant who was taken under the wing of a great business leader like Bill Campbell, I have an abiding belief that we all should pay it forward by ensuring that our workplace represents all types of people,» Michael wrote.

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.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Leader of the Future Award.

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.»

In a classic book «The Hidden Leader,» by Scott Edinger and Laurie Sain, I found four great initiatives for recognizing the behavior and results of team members who are likely the leaders you need:

Ambassadors are a vital volunteer group of business leaders who welcome first - year Members into the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade by acquainting them with The Board's services and encouraging them to get engaged.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

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.

Thanks to a great team of writers, reviewers and journalists this magazine is essential reading for Christians leaders who want to be up to date.

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.

There the church was Latin - speaking and produced great writers and leaders such as Tertullian (c.160 - c. 225), who was brought up in Carthage, and Cyprian (d. 258), who was a pagan orator who was converted to Christianity in about 246 and who, two years later, was elected Bishop of Carthage.

Earlier this summer, I spoke at the General Assembly of the Assemblies of God in Indianapolis at the request of Steve Pike, who is their church planting movement leader (and an all around great guy, having planted a strong church in Colorado and now investing his life in planters).

Do you complain privately about your secretary — who performs miracles already with the bad syntax of your dictation, but who can not quite make you sound like Winston Churchill — because, if you took trouble with your syntax, you would be like an ordinary man and not a great spiritual leader?

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...

Shame on all of you, and you know who you are... the rest of the world knows what a great leader Barack Obama is.

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.

Will we find a home in our midst for leaders of faith movements — the Peter Cartwrights and Frances Willards of the 21st century — who inspire us by living out the two greatest moral lessons of life: «to hear» (which can produce «martyrs») and «to dare» (which can produce «heroes»)?

Others kept nearer to the level of common experience, forecasting a great victory granted miraculously to a divinely appointed leader, the «Messiah», who should then reign in righteousness over an Israelite empire.

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.»

This has been criticized by faith leaders, including Hannu Haukka, president of Great Commission Media Ministries, who called the laws restrictive and similar to repressive legislation passed by Soviet - era Russia.

Well either he was the leader and head of the catholic church who has done all these great things (and thus knew all about this situation and the cover up) or he was simply a figure head and is to be pitied for being used as a pawn and not deserving of any praise.

Today's Christian leaders are part of the Platform Generation, quietly competing in that same game of «Who is the greatest?»

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

We need leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility for working with a group of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance of the church's mission in society.

(It was during the months immediately following the publication of The Socialist Decision that Hitler proceeded to do just that; and it was only a year later that Gregor Strasser, generally considered the leader of the more authentically socialist wing of the party, together with all those who offered any challenge to Hitler's absolute leadership, was murdered in the Great Purge of June 30, 1934.)

Following World War II, there was a great surge of church life and church building that momentarily mesmerized church leaders who saw a new golden age emerging on the horizon.

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).

It was a great help to me in showing me that I wasn't turning my back on God, but rather on a manipulative cult leader who had destroyed quite enough of my life already.

The Psalmists are not outstanding personalities, like prophets and leaders of the past, who out of the exceptional depth of their own experience initiated great movements in history.

Out of curiosity, I Googled Catholic political leaders recently and found only the great Al Smith, the governor of New York who ran for president in 1928 (and lost, alas!).

Church leaders, who are already visible and already struggle with this temptation, are in greatest risk of this temptation.

But in the words of Leo the Great, «Peter is the true leader of all, who have in the first place Christ as their leader... The strength which Christ gives to Peter passes through Peter to the Apostles — because he gave such authority to him whom he chose as head of the whole Church.»

According to Professor John Crossan of Biblical Studies at DePaul University the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (274 - 337 CE), (a bust of Constantine is pictured below) who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity, needed a single canon to be agreed upon by the Christian leaders to help him unify the remains of the Roman Empire.

The ambition of the World Forum for Alternatives and all the organisations and individuals who wish to be associated with it is to set up working groups on each of these themes, drawing together a great diversity of analysts and social and political leaders.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

I feel empathy for those evangelicals who voted for Trump on the calculus of the better of two bad choices, but I feel great frustration at evangelical leaders who excused his many sins, distorted the gospel, and tried to make a positive case for Trump's virtues as commander in chief.