“Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.” BelieveDifferentUnderstandingLeaderGenerationsSophisticatedIdeologicalPragmaticPredecessorsTaiwanDifferent Generations Author:Ma Ying-jeou
“Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.” NeedsImportantCountryIndividualUnderstandingLeaderSupportConversationObjectivesMinistersDiscussionCanadaReviewsSummitSurveillanceSurveysAssessment Author:Cynthia Carroll
“I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.” UnderstandingLeaderServantDictatorGentleness Author:Tony Gaskins
“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
“It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.” IfsWantCountryPoliticalSocialUnderstandingUnitedResponsibilityLeaderMediaUnityOur CountryDynamicsPolitical LeadersCohesion Author:Salva Kiir Mayardit
“Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.” PeopleMindMayUnderstandingPayLeaderAtheismNew YorkBoxesPositive AtheismContraryInsaneHelpfulCowardCowardiceSeptemberTelephonesClicheSeptember 11SuitableAtrocitiesMindless Author:Richard Dawkins
“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.” MenWayWantFeelsBelieveLongIdeasSelfEarthTogetherJobsSocialGrowsUnderstandingBehindsLeaderPathFeminismHugeInvolvedDiseaseMen And WomenEmpowermentFundamentalsEvolvePatriarchyWant UPeace On EarthSelf EmpowermentImbalanceReally LongUndoing Author:Ani DiFranco
“Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.” PeopleWorldStuffUnderstandingLeaderIssuesCommunicationReturnInvestmentMathCorporateCorporate WorldReturn On Investment Author:Douglas Conant
“It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.” InspirationValuesUnderstandingLeaderShareCallingPriesthood Author:M. Russell Ballard
“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.” PeopleHappensSpiritualValuesLostSocialUnderstandingLosesLeaderMysteryModernConditionsUnderstoodInstitutionsImpactSymbolsExposedDecayPrimitiveCivilisationOrganisationAnthropologistsSpiritual LeaderSpiritual Values Author:Carl Jung