A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 248 pages
• Published by: True Gifts Publishing
• Edition: 1st Edition edition September 25, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0979670101
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979670107
• Book Dimensions: 13 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Review
Sensational! This masterful work has become our leadership bible. It will change the face of leadership education forever. --Luke O Neill, president, The Henderson International School

Every word that is in this book speaks to the soul of leadership and the best humanity has to give. If the angels had gotten together to write a book awakening people to the greatness that can manifest in people, A Leader Becomes A Leader would be it. --Madelyn Yucht, CEO Synergos Consulting Group

In this telling retrospective of what it means to be a leader, historian J. Kevin Sheehan outlines the history of this past century's most important human resources and describes just what made their contributions to the advancement of humanity so great. From athletes, to musicians, to practitioners of peace ''A Leader Becomes A Leader'' offers an assortment of rare individuals who made it their mission to stand up for what they believed, even if their lives were cut short as a result. --Strand Books

Product Description
A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a spirit exists in work of a high order that works outside time to touch readers whenever he or she proves ready. This book in a vivid presentation of images and essays asks an important question: is there a spirit to leadership? Does it exist, and if it does, can it work outside the normal, linear confines of history to mark the progress of civilization in important and consequential ways? A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation is a thought-provoking and much-heralded first work from nationally recognized entreprenuer and author J. Kevin Sheehan. With 207 gorgeous photographs and a splendid design from award-winning graphic artist Jan Lindy Boyce, the book lays out cinematically, with sprawling visuals that present critical themes of leadership that get little coverage in current media: Seeking Justice, Sowing Peace, Manifesting Beauty, and With Vision are some of the important realms that make up the books architecture. The book asserts that the spirit of leadership and the core human values that underline it are universal, inherent human capacities that ''often go underestimated or unrecognized when people settle for less.'' The Determination of Nelson Mandela, The Presence of Eleanor Roosevelt, The Experiments of Mohatma Gandhi, The Decency of Cesar Chavez are some of the compelling section titles. Take a journey, and discover how some of the most consequential leaders of the last century developed into the people that we remember, and find inside this book the metaphoric struggles that make or break us on our own paths to leadership. The book is distinguished in the variety of leadership segments and iconic figures it represents. They include Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, Katherine Graham, Neil Armstrong, Aung San Suu Kyii, Pelé , and 57 others!

Reader Reviews
Good advice from a best selling business management book suggests, "Try to find someone doing something right". Kevin Sheehan seems to have found the best of those folks and documents the lives of an amazingly diverse group of individuals who epitomize excellence. The 'usual supects', Winston Churchill, JFK and Albert Einstein coexist on these pages with Georgia O'keefe, Louis Armstrong and Tiger Woods. You can read it from the front, the back or the middle and you can take your time about it too. Then. leave it on the coffee table so your kids can read about people "doing something right". Comment | | (Report this)