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Informationen zum Autor Sam M. Intrator is a professor at Smith College and founder of the Smith College Urban Education Initiative. A Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, he is the author/editor of five books, including Tuned In and Fired Up , Teaching with Fire , and Stories of the Courage to Teach . Megan Scribner is an editor who also documents and evaluates programs for nonprofits. She is the coeditor of Teaching with Fire and coauthor with Parker J. Palmer of The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal , Tenth Anniversary Edition. Klappentext Praise for Leading from Within " Leading from Within is perhaps the most soulful treatment of leadership ever composed. Leadership is first an inner quest, and there is absolutely no better place to explore your inner territory than in the pages of this book. This is an evocative work of art; do yourself an immense favor, and engage with these amazing and diverse leaders and their poems." -- Jim Kouzes , coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and A Leader's Legacy "Leading from Within makes brilliant use of the world's great poets to inspire us to lead with our hearts as well as our heads. It calls to the deeper purpose and meaning within all of us to use our gifts to serve others." -- Bill George , author, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership "This is a superb collection of poems and deeply personal reflections from a wide range of real leaders. It is a gift to all of us who believe in bringing our hearts to our work." -- Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) "The entries in this wonderful anthology are a joy to read and all the more interesting because of their special meaning to the leaders who recommended them. It is a book that every nonprofit leader should place among those they draw upon for inspiration every day." -- Diana Aviv , president and CEO, Independent Sector "Leading from Within offers a candid view straight into the heart and soul of leaders striving to do good and effective work in the world. The poems and commentaries remind us that leadership is always deeply personal and chock-full of dilemmas that must be addressed by creativity, passion, imagination, and courage." -- Jeff Swartz , president and CEO, Timberland Royalties from this book support leadership programs offered through the Center for Courage & Renewal. Zusammenfassung This beautiful collection of 92 poems -- including poems by Walt Whitman! Mary Oliver! Langston Hughes! Billy Collins! Emily Dickinson! Pablo Neruda! T.S. Eliot! and more -- will touch the minds and hearts of leaders and encourage and sustain them in their work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xv Madeleine K. Albright A Note to Our Readers xix Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner Introduction xxv Parker J. Palmer Called 1 Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" reflection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance 2 Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" [Excerpt] reflection by Nicole Gagnon, college student leader 6 Langston Hughes's "Madam's Calling Card" reflection by Kyle Dodson, high school principal 8 William Stafford's "The Way It Is" reflection by Michael Intrator, managing director, emissions trading company 10 William Carlos Williams's "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [Excerpt] reflection by Peter S. Temes, president, ILO Institute 12 Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" [Excerpt] reflection by Rosemary Jordano Shore, founder, ChildrenFirst 14 William Blake's "Songs ...
