The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham

■ ■ ■ Immersion in the furnace of leadership formation began with a painful experience with a beautiful young woman. Emily Cavan ...

■ ■ ■ Russian poet Boris Pasternak once said, “It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the way to new and better days but ...

“Quite frankly,” said Olford later, “his preaching was very ordi- nary. Neither his homiletics nor his theology nor his particul ...

something has happened to Billy Graham. The world is going to hear from this man.’” Indeed, in Pasternak’s phrase, Billy’s soul ...

“What do you mean, ‘profound humility’?” “I was amazed at Billy. He had brought Grady and T. W. Wil- son and Cliff Barrows with ...

very unusual. His voice just makes you want to listen. Yet he understands it’s a gift the Lord bestowed on him.” Bennett and Eme ...

who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but w ...

The senior Theodore Roosevelt was to New York what George Bennett and Allan Emery are to Boston. Wealthy, but fully engaged in c ...

He determined from then on to “train myself painfully and laboriously, not merely as regards my body but as regards my soul and ...

in his entering politics. Armed with the elder Theodore’s values and a driving sense of purpose, he fearlessly plunged into this ...

■ ■ ■ Roosevelt’s man in the arena, “face marred by dust and sweat and blood, spending himself in a worthy cause, daring greatly ...

What did he mean by that? Billy read often in the Bible the words of Jesus to his disciples, “Whoever desires to come after me, ...

bility. Billy was a friend and counselor to many American presi- dents during times of crisis. All these chief executives experi ...

History now depicts both Reagan and Billy as heroes in those struggles in the early 1980s with the Soviets. But at the time, bot ...

Good to Greatand countless other leadership books, nor face the often overwhelming demands of leadership, and not understand why ...

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Pa rt Two Getting Started When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burni ...

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CHAPTER 2 Forming the Team I’d rather interview fifty people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person. JEFF BEZOS Extraord ...

The questions are especially intriguing in light of the era in which the team was formed. In recent years the words teamand part ...