Read 21 Great Leaders: Learn Their Lessons, Improve Your Influence Online
Authors: Pat Williams
2
Alice Fleming,
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Dream of Hope
(New York: Sterling, 2008), 9.
3
Martin Luther King Jr., “Rediscovering Lost Values,” Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 4, 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. Online,
http://www.mlkonline.net/christians.html
.
4
Martin Luther King Jr., “Loving Your Enemies,” Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957, iPoet.com,
http://www.ipoet.com/ARCHIVE/BEYOND/King-Jr/Loving-Your-Enemies.html
.
5
Martin Luther King Jr., “Eulogy for the Martyred Children,” Birmingham, Alabama, September 18, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute,
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/eulogy_for_the_martyred_children/
.
6
Martin Luther King Jr., “How Long, Not Long” (aka “Our God Is Marching On),” Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute,
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/article/our_god_is_marching_on/
.
7
Martin Luther King Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968, AmericanRhetoric. com,
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
(minor changes in punctuation made by the authors).
8
Ed Pilkington, “40 Years after King’s Death, Jackson Hails First Steps into Promised Land,”
Guardian
, April 3, 2008,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/03/usa.race
.
9
Tom Brokaw,
Boom! Voices of the Sixties—Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today
(New York: Random House, 2008), 15.
10
Thomas Dexter Lynch and Peter L. Cruise,
Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach
(Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2006), 596.
11
1 Corinthians 14:8.
Chapter 6
1
WGBH, “American Experience: Reagan,” Complete Program Transcript, PBS.org,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/reagan-transcript/
.
2
George F. Will, foreword to
Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
, by Craig Shirley (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2009), xi–xii.
3
Ronald Reagan, “We Will Be a City upon a Hill,” First Conservative Political Action Conference, January 25, 1974, Reagan2020.us,
http://reagan2020.us/speeches/City_Upon_A_Hill.asp
.
4
Ronald Reagan, “Address To Members of the British Parliament,” June 8, 1982, Ronald Reagan’s Major Speeches 1964–1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/60882a.htm
.
5
Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida,” March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan’s Major Speeches 1964–1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/30883b.htm
.
6
Serge Schmemann, “Soviet Says Reagan Has ‘Pathological Hatred,’”
New York Times
, March 10, 1983,
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/10/world/soviet-says-reagan-has-pathological-hatred.html
.
7
Lesley Stahl,
Reporting Live
(New York: Touchstone, 1999), 164.
8
Paul Kengor, “Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ Turns 30,”
American Spectator
, March 8, 2013,
http://spectator.org/articles/33780/reagans-evil-empire-turns-30
.
9
Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security,” March 23, 1983, Ronald Reagan’s Major Speeches 1964–1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/32383d.htm
.
10
Ben Bova,
Star Peace: Assured Survival
(New York: Tor, 1986), 157.
11
“Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987,” Top Ten Greatest Speeches,
Time
, September 17, 2008,
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841228_1841749_1841743,00.html
.
12
Gardiner Morse, “How Presidents Persuade: A Conversation with David Gergen,”
Harvard Business Review
, January 2003,
http://hbr.org/2003/01/how-presidents-persuade/ar/1
.
13
James P. Farwell,
Persuasion and Power: The Art of Strategic Communication
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012), 122.
14
Michael Reagan,
The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan’s Principles Can Restore America’s Greatness Today
(New York: Saint Martin’s, 2010), 303.
15
Stephen F. Knott, quoted in Charles Dunn, ed.,
The Enduring Reagan
(Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 90.
16
WGBH, “American Experience: Jimmy Carter,” Primary Resources: “Crisis of Confidence,” PBS.org,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/carter-crisis/
.
17
Warren G. Bennis,
On Becoming a Leader
(New York: Basic Books, 2009), 193.
18
Colin Powell, quoted in Carmine Gallo,
10 Simple Secrets of the World’s Greatest Business Communicators
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2006), 35.
19
Ken Khachigian, “What Made Reagan the Great Communicator,”
Orange County Register
, February 4, 2011, updated August 21, 2013,
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/reagan-287119-great-dollar.html
.
20
Ronald Reagan,
Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
(New York: Simon & Shuster, 1989), 14.
21
Dinesh D’Souza,
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader
(New York: Simon & Shuster, 1999), 9.
22
James Mann,
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan
(New York: Viking, 2009), 164.
23
Steven F. Hayward,
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution
, 1980–1989 (New York: Crown Forum, 2009), 1–2.
24
Ibid.
Chapter 7
1
President George H. W. Bush, “Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Samuel M. Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas,” March 17, 1992, Public Papers—1992—March, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum,
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=4072&year=1992&month=3
; the authors have made minor alterations to Mr. Bush’s remarks for the sake of clarity.
2
Jack Welch, quoted in Richard K. Vedder and Wendell Cox,
The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big-box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy
(Washington, DC, AEI Press, 2006), 50.
3
Michael Bergdahl,
The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006), 109.
4
Robert Slater,
How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton’s Legacy Into the World’s #1 Company
(New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2003), 7.
5
Alexander E. M. Hess, “The Ten Largest Employers in America,”
USA Today
, August 22, 2013,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/22/ten-largest-employers/2680249/
.
6
Sam Walton with John Huey,
Sam Walton: Made in America
(New York: Bantam, 1993), 19.
7
Ibid.
8
Ibid., 23.
9
Ibid., 26.
10
Ibid., 29.
11
Ibid., 38–39.
12
Ibid., 42, 46.
13
Ibid., 107, 159.
14
James Kouzes and Barry Posner,
The Truth about Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart of the Matter Facts You Need to Know
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010), 137–38.
15
Neil Snyder, James J. Dowd Jr., and Diane Morse Houghton ,
Vision, Values, and Courage: Leadership for Quality Management
(New York: The Free Press, 1994), 56.
16
Sam Walton, “Sam Walton in His Own Words,”
Fortune
, June 29, 1992,
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/06/29/76578/index.htm
.
17
Walton with Huey,
Sam Walton: Made in America
, 267.
18
Michael Armstrong,
How to be an Even Better Manager
(Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2014), 287.
19
Sam Walton, “10 Rules for Building a Business,” Walmart.com,
http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/history/10-rules-for-building-a-business
.
20
Harold Meyerson, “In Wal-Mart’s Image,”
American Prospect
, August 14, 2009,
http://prospect.org/article/wal-marts-image-0
.
21
Nelson Lichtenstein,
The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
(New York: Picador, 2010), 118–19.
22
Walton with Huey,
Sam Walton: Made in America
, 162–63.
Chapter 8
1
John Gunther,
Roosevelt in Retrospect: A Profile in History
(New York: Harper, 1950), 168.
2
James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), 16; John Gunther,
Roosevelt in Retrospect
, 178.
3
Jean Edward Smith,
FDR
(New York: Random House, 2008), 29.
4
David M. Oshinsky,
Polio: An American Story
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 24–26.
5
Frances Perkins,
The Roosevelt I Knew
(New York: Penguin, 2011), 29–30.
6
Joseph E. Persico,
Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life
(New York: Random House, 2008), 187.
7
Paul F. Boller Jr.,
Presidential Anecdotes
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 259.
8
Ibid., 258.
9
Ibid., 261.
10
Ibid., 259.
11
Ibid., 269–70; Gil Troy,
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
(New York: Basic Books, 2008), 106–7.
12
“Power / Influence / Authority,” Learningful—The Art of Possibility, Learningful.ca,
http://www.learningful.ca/power-influence-authority.php
.
13
Perkins,
The Roosevelt I Knew
, 369.
14
Dale Carnegie,
How to Win Friends and Influence People
(New York: Simon & Shuster, 1998) 76–77; “E3 Spark Plugs Digs Hyde Park on Hudson—and Fab FDR Cars,” E3 Spark Plugs News, December 10, 2012,
http://www.e3sparkplugs.com/news/e3-spark-plugs-digs-hyde-park-on-hudson-and-fab-fdr-cars/
.
15
Will Swift,
The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed History
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004), 140–41.
16
Michael Fullilove,
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World
(New York: Penguin, 2013), 12–13.
17
Robert Cross,
Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II
(Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010), 49.
18
Boller Jr.,
Presidential Anecdotes
, 262.
19
Jonathan Yardley, “Review:
FDR
by Jean Edward Smith,”
Washington Post
, May 27, 2007,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052500004.html
.
20
Perkins,
The Roosevelt I Knew
, 6.
Chapter 9
1
Associated Press, “Pope John Paul II Forgave His Shooter on Way to Hospital,” Associated Press, January 26, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/01/26/pope-john-paul-ii-forgave-his-shooter-on-way-to-hospital/
.
2
Randall J. Meissen, “A Mother’s Hand Guided the Bullets: John Paul II, Forgiving a Would-Be-Assassin,” Catholic.org, April 27, 2011,
http://www.catholic.org/news/saints/story.php?id=41174
.
3
Ibid.
4
Norman Davies,
Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw
(New York: Viking, 2003), 253.
5
George Weigel,
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 75.
6
Ofer Aderet, “Edith Zierer, Holocaust Survivor Saved by Pope, Dies,” Haaretz.com, January 16, 2014,
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.568993
.
7
Ted Harrison,
Tales of Three Popes: True Stories from the Lives of Francis, John Paul II, and John XXIII
(London: Darton, Longman, & Todd, 2014), 36.
8
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart,
Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy from St. Peter to the Present
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 233.