Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consi...der a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly, like a chestnut falling out of burr, he was shed naked and glistening onto a soft, fecund earth, leaving behind him the ...hard rind of worldly knowledge and experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip- dripping from the eaves of a frame house. So clear-cut were their point...ed shadows on the white boards behind them that I was sure the shadows of the falling drops should be visible too. But they were not. The roof jutted too far out, perhaps, or the angle of vision was faulty, or again, I did not chance to be watching the right icicle when the right drop fell. There was a rhythm, an alternation in the dropping that I found as teasing as a coin trick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
with the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throat The undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be something... That no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough airLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root,... Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to her mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fo...ld: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I used to join the murmurings about "Where are the qualified women?" As we murmured, we would all gaze about the room, up toward t...he chandelier, into the corner behind the potted palm, under the napkin, hoping perhaps that qualified women would pop out like leprechauns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The steel decks rock with the lightning shock, and shake with the great recoil,... And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches for his spoil-- But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs, Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »