Frances Hesselbein Quotes

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Frances Hesselbein

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 1, 1915

Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

Frances Hesselbein

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Frances Hesselbein

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Frances Hesselbein

Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.

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I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

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I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.

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In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.

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Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.

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We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.

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We see change as a challenge, not as a threat.

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We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.

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Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.

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Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.

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Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

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Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

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There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

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