The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!