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Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber

(Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage)

Chapter One – Learn from Your Past

“Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.” -ER

Chapter Two - Find Mentors and Advisers

“All my life I have been grateful for [Mlle. Souvestre’s] influence.”- ER

Chapter Three - Mothering: Training for Leadership

“Remember that a home requires all the tact and all the executive ability required in any business.” -ER

Chapter Four - Learning the Hard Way

“Readjustment is a kind of private revolution.” -ER

Chapter Five - Find Your Leadership Passion

“Work is easier to carry if your heart is involved.” -ER

Chapter Six - Your Leadership Your Way

“Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world…”- ER

Chapter Seven - Give Voice to Your Leadership

“If you have something to say you can say it.” -ER

Chapter Eight - Face Criticism with Courage

“Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!” -ER

Chapter Nine – Keep Your Focus

“To be useful is, in a way, to justify one’s own existence. The difficult thing, perhaps, is to learn how to be useful, to recognize needs and to attempt to meet them.”-ER

Chapter Ten - Contacts, Networks and Connections

“Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static.” -ER

Chapter Eleven - Embrace Risk

“What matters now, as always, is not what we can’t do: it is what we can and must do.” –ER

Chapter Twelve - Never Stop Learning

“Today, living and learning must go hand in hand.” –ER

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