Quote Sources

Acknowledge

Leaders…are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capacity to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models – that is, they are responsible for learning.
-- Peter Senge

Authors

If you are curious about the source of one or more of the quotes used throughout this website, listed below are the complete references. Happy reading!

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics.

Block, Peter: The Empowered Manager – Positive Political Skills at Work. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons/Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Covey, Stephen: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Restoring the Character Ethic. New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1989.

Drucker, Peter: Managing the Nonprofit Organization – Principles and Practices. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Quoted in Nanus and Dobbs.

Fisher, Roger and William Ury: Getting to Yes – Negotiating without Giving In, Second Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Goethe: Quoted in Gross.

Gross, Ronald: Peak Learning – How to Create Your Own Lifelong Education Program for Personal Enlightenment and Professional Success; Revised Edition. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999.

Gyatso, Tenzin (H.H. the 14th Dalia Lama): Imagine All the People – A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life as it Could Be. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1999.

Hammarskjold, Dag: Markings; trans. Leif Sjoberg and W.H. Auden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf and Faber & Faber, 1964.

Hock, Dee: Birth of the Chaordic Age. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

James, William: Quoted in Nanus and Dobbs.

Khema, Ayya: When the Iron Eagle Flies: Buddhism for the West. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2000.

Leider, Richard J. and David A. Shapiro: Whistle While You Work – Heeding Your Life’s Calling. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001.

Letts, Christine, William Ryan and Allen Grossman: High Performance Nonprofit Organizations – Managing Upstream for Greater Impact. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Levinson, Jay Conrad: Guerrilla Marketing, Third Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

Levinson, Jay Conrad and Michael W. McLaughlin: Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants – Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Lincoln, Abraham: Quoted in Nanus and Dobbs; Phillips.

Machiavelli, Niccolo Di Bernardo: Quoted in Hock

Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown and Company/Back Bay Books, 1995.

Milton, John: Paradise Lost (1667).

Nanus, Burt and Stephen M. Dobbs: Leaders Who Make a Difference: Essential Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons/Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

Phillips, Donald: Lincoln on Leadership – Executive Strategies for Tough Times. New York: Warner Books, 1992.

Quinn, Robert: Change the World – How Ordinary People Can Accomplish Extraordinary Results. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons/Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000.

Senge, Peter: Quoted in Nanus and Dobbs.

Shakespeare, William: Hamlet (1600)

Thoreau, Henry David: Quoted in Covey; Hock.

Weisbord, Marvin: Productive Workplaces – Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning, and Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1987.

West Hollywood Shop Window Stencil: J. Gerard Design Studio, 8575 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood CA

Wolf, Thomas: Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1999

 

Commentators

Those quoted in the section on Positive Reactions come from a variety of backgrounds. The specific professional contexts in which I worked with them are noted below. The individuals named do not necessarily hold the positions cited at present.

  • Akiyama, Diana – President, Progressive Christians Uniting, Los Angeles CA
  • Bates, J. Barrington – Executive Director, Ascension Outreach, New York NY
  • Christenson, Camey – Program Director, Episcopal Community Services of San Diego, San Diego CA
  • Colburn, R. Bruce – Development Coordinator, Integrity USA, Rochester NY
  • Dickinson, Gary – Junior Warden, Church of St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco CA
  • Franklin, James – Senior Warden, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA
  • Gibson, John – Editorial Consultant and Director of Communications, Integrity USA, Rochester NY
  • Gleason, Gary – Executive Officer and Canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
  • Green, Andrew – Rector, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA
  • Heller, Jan – Senior Warden, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA
  • Huber, James – Advisor to the Executive Director, Episcopal Community Services of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
  • Kennedy, Zelda – Senior Associate for Pastoral Care and Spiritual Growth, All Saints Church, Pasadena CA
  • Laarman, Peter – Executive Director, Progressive Christians Uniting, Los Angeles CA
  • Lawton, Sarah – Senior Warden, Church of St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco CA
  • Lietz, Marsha – Chair of the Board of Directors, Episcopal Community Services of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
  • Norrie, Michael-Gregory – Director of Lay Ministries, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA
  • Notari, Cheryl – Executive Committee Member, The Oasis, Newark NJ
  • Parker, Stephanie – Associate Rector, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA
  • Thomas, Allisyn – Sub-dean, St. Paul’s Cathedral, San Diego CA
  • Thompson, Mark – Priest-in-Charge, Church of St. Paul-on-the-Hill, St. Paul MN
  • Williams, Ernest “Bud” – Executive Director, The Gooden Center, Pasadena CA
  • Winters, Valerie – Desktop Publisher, Church of St. Paul in the Desert, Palm Springs CA