WHY Xtra: 5 Thoughts on Leadership*

1. "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. --Abraham Lincoln
2. "Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership." --Woodrow Wilson
3. "In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." --Harry S. Truman
4. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." --John F. Kennedy
5. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." --Barack Obama

Wherever you stand politically, today is a new day, begins a new era, in American politics. All my best to President Barack Obama who, in the face of tremendous challenges, has managed to excite a nation and provide hope to a people suffering through what is the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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