Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportive audiences.
Reed Markham, PhD
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DICK WILLIAMS Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay... BENJAMIN DISRAELI Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. ... CLAIRE SCOVELL LAZEBNIK Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American l... PETER L. BERGEN I will be amazed if Straw doesn't explicitly or implicitly make it clear that Britain will not go ah... ANTHONY KING The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without v... ANDREW YOUNG We set that date without getting the support of the U.N. We set that unilaterally. And we now are tr... CARL LEVIN We must not only dream,but also act.Dream without action is like a bird without wings.To make dream ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr... 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BLANCHE LINCOLN People with secrets shouldn’t make enemies. People with destinies shouldn’t make plan... LAINI TAYLOR The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Ill... SHANNON N. BAUGHER Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people. PAYAL KADAKIA True leaders are a threat to average leaders and managers because they rattle their cages! PATRICK DRIESSEN A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because w... ANDREA BOCELLI Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communica... ROSABETH MOSS KANTER We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to ta... CRISS JAMI There is a tremendous amount of land out that way, and we're trying to establish public and private ... HUGH MCGUIRE A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root... MARCUS GARVEY Many people and poets, especially, talk of love, without thought, without fear, without knowin... ALASDAIR MACKIE Harper to your word be true Holder, crafter you also hew To honesty, integrity, and respec... ANNE MCCAFFREY I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Partnering is the air we need to breathe. A large network of strategic alliances built from customer... ANDREA CUOMO Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with... MARY BALOGH A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.” ASHISH KUMAR There's a tradition in politics of asking young people for their votes and time without asking peopl... 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