“Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.” PoliticalNightLeaderEventsAdvantageElectionMandatesInaugurationTaking AdvantageOverreaching Author:Ron Fournier
“It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.” I CanWould BeLeaderImpossibleEventsStupidImpossibilityImpossible ThingsFuture Events Author:John Key
“I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.” ThinkingKnowsShouldActionPoliticalSocialLeaderEventsTransformationArchitectureFabricImplementingFollow UpInstigators Author:Lebbeus Woods
“The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.” PeopleBelieveLeaderGreaterEventsCrimeCapable Author:Adolf Hitler
“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.” PeopleWantBelieveUseHappensAbleCertainNamesIndividualForceSocialCausesUnderstandingLeadershipLeaderEnvironmentEventsComplexesMake SenseOutcomesAttributesInteractionAnalyzingCausality Author:Joseph C. Rost
“Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get rid of Hitler, some other leader apart from Hitler would have emerged and, because of the structural constant of German nationalism, would have exploited German national feeling and produce the same kind of events no matter what.” PeopleIfsWantKindMatterFeelingsLeaderCasesEventsProduceNo Matter WhatConstantBritishNationalismHook Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.” LeaderEventsMovementPendulums Author:Brian K. Vaughan