“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.” WorldFirstsImportantHardFactsRealityTogetherJobsPastPowerfulLeaderFitTruth IsEvidenceRoundsSaintAvailableJournalistAnalysisMost PowerfulHistorianDisagreementPast And PresentDissidentsMosaicsPowerful LeadersTilesCobblestone Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.” AbilityLeaderModernTvsEvidenceContraryDespiteOccupationTechnologicalCultRivalsCredibilityVisionariesWeathermen Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.” PeopleYearsEndsGuyLeaderClearOne ThingSubjectsEvidenceOrganizationCraziest Book:Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated Source: Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated
“One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.” CountrySimpleLeaderPrinciplesTruth IsEvidenceBasesIraqIntuitionRhetoricExaggeratedSimple Truths Author:Wesley Clark
“While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.” WellsIdeasCareLastsDifferencesLinesPayLeaderEconomicFrontsOughtEvidenceWorkersAverageTake CareEnormousWell BeingEmployeeCeoPackagesMockery Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.” Would BeMovingJesusChristLeaderCasesEvidenceRiversCurrentsDenyDataMake SenseLogicalSwimSwimmingPointingDeitiesSwimming Upstream Author:Lee Strobel
“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.” AgeVoiceAbilityRaceQualityLeaderFourIntegrityEvidenceCapacityMarkGenderGreat LeaderDistinctiveEthnicityExemplaryAdaptive Author:Warren G. Bennis
“The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.” WorldMovingPresidentLeaderEvidenceProvocativeWorld Leader Author:Karen Tumulty
“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.” WellsIdeasSeemsAmericaBlackWhiteViewsRaceLeaderGenerationsMembersEvidenceClintonSatisfactionBurdenGenderContraryOptimisticRejectsSupporterBreakthroughPrecariousObama Supporters Book:The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.” MeanChildrenCountrySocialGrowthCompanyLeaderSupportIssuesClearProgressEconomicKeysEvidenceGenderDiscriminationAgreementLegislationParliamentSocial IssuesEconomic GrowthGender EqualityWomen EqualityWoman LeaderHealth EducationAnti Discrimination Author:Ban Ki-moon