A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by Sheehan, J. Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780979670107
• ISBN10: 0979670101
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-27
• Publisher: True Gifts Pub

Summary

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1886. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a spirit exists in work of a high order that works outside time to touch readers whenever he or she proves ready. This book in a vivid presentation of images and essays asks an important question: is there a spirit to leadership? Does it exist, and if it does, can it work outside the normal, linear confines of history to mark the progress of civilization in important and consequential ways? A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation is a thought-provoking and much-heralded first work from nationally recognized entrepreneur and author J. Kevin Sheehan.With 207 gorgeous photographs and a splendid design from award-winning graphic artist Jan Lindy Boyce, the book lays out cinematically, with sprawling visuals that present critical themes of leadership that get little coverage in current media: Seeking Justice, Sowing Peace, Manifesting Beauty, and With Vision are some of the important realms that make up the book's architecture.The book asserts that the spirit of leadership and the core human values that underline it are universal, inherent human capacities that "often go underestimated or unrecognized when people settle for less." The Determination of Nelson Mandela, The Presence of Eleanor Roosevelt, The Experiments of Mohatma Gandhi, The Decency of Cesar Chavez are some of the compelling section titles. Take a journey, and discover how some of the most consequential leaders of the last century developed into the people that we remember, and find inside this book the metaphoric struggles that make or break us on our own paths to leadership. The book is distinguished in the variety of leadership segments and iconic figures it represents. They include Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, Katherine Graham, Neil Armstrong, Aung San Suu Kyii, Pelé , and 57 others!

Author Biography

Kevin Sheehan has had a distinguished career as an author, producer, and award-winning entrepreneur. For twenty years, he has produced recordings, films, books, software, and retail environments that have helped change the way people manage and view culture, and the way they shape and share inspiration.He is the founder of Hear Music, now Starbucks Hear Music ("The Sound of Starbucks"). Widely heralded for its important innovations, the company has played a unique role in redefining music retail for almost two decades. Elle magazine likened a visit to the original store to "dying and going to music heaven." National Public Radio wondered how the experience did not exist before 1992.Sheehan has had the good fortune to work with a variety of creative partners, including the internationally acclaimed dance troupe La La Human Steps of Montreal, Canada, and the Haley House Men's Shelter of Boston, Massachusetts, which has developed an innovative bakery and cafT to train and re-employ people who have fallen on hard times. Sheehan is currently active in real estate and publishing in Massachusetts, and serves as a consultant to several nonprofit organizations.