
I could hear her words resonate in these pages again and again
as I worked to capture the stories of these celebrated leaders.
Inspired leadership, it seems, is not about big things. In fact,
it turns out that the leaders featured here often found greatness
in the smallest things, in the essential human stuff such as
discipline, patience, truth, compassion, creativity, and fairness.
Leadership comes in both the public arena and in more private
moments where one mind, one heart, one spirit meets another
through timeless art and literature. Leadership also happens
through simple example, such as when a great athlete, by sheer
human excellence, demonstrates for a global village what is
possible....