- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold clearly harbored political ambitions for a long time. In 1977, six years before he became a US citizen, he told a German magazine: "When one has money, one day it becomes less interesting. And when one is also the best in film, what can be more interesting? Perhaps power. Then one moves into politics and becomes governor or president or something." He realized that one day his movie-making days were numbered and began thinking about a career in politics. - Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989. Other books he has written include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". His latest book is "The 8th Habit", published in 2004. - John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell (born 1947) is an American pastor, author, and "leadership expert." He is the founder of Injoy, a "people development company." He graduated from Azusa Pacific University. Maxwell has written over forty books (mostly on leadership), including "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (with Zig Ziglar) and "The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow", among others. - Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader. Coretta King is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. - Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels Senior Pastor Willow Creek Community Church Chairman of the Board Willow Creek Association - Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard. - Mike Smith
Mike Smith is the mayor of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a candidate for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party in 2007, finishing third. - Michael Collins
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (16 October, 1890 - 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. - Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - John McDonnell
John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951 in Liverpool, England) is a British politician and Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington. He is Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, the Labour Representation Committee, and Public Services Not Private Profit. McDonnell unsuccessfully ran for the post of Labour Party leader following Tony Blair's resignation. - John Kotter
John Paul Kotter is a professor at the Harvard Business School, who is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations—became the change bible for managers around the world. - Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy, (born July 24 1960 in The Pas, Manitoba) is a Canadian politician. While attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton, he became involved in the local food bank, eventually becoming its first executive director in 1983. In 1986, he moved to Toronto to run the Daily Bread food bank, which he did until entering politics in 1996. - Tom Barry
Thomas (Tom) Barry was one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. - Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 - April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition. - James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (b. August 3 1918) is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his "Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945". - John Carver
John Carver (1576-1621), Pilgrim leader and the first governor of Plymouth Colony, born probably in Nottinghamshire, England. Carver was a wealthy London merchant, but he left England and went to Leiden, Netherlands, in 1607 or 1608 because of religious persecution. In 1617 he became the agent for the Pilgrims in securing a charter and financial support for the establishment of a colony in America. He chartered the "Mayflower" and, with 101 other colonists, … - Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland. - Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White ("née" Harmon born to Robert and Eunice Harmon, was an American Christian leader whose prophetic ministry was instrumental in founding the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Supporters of Ellen G. White regard her as a modern-day prophet, usually expressed in the language that she exhibited the spiritual gift of prophecy as outlined in the New Testament. - Robin Sharma
Robin is the 41 year old author of 7 #1 international bestsellers and one of the world’s top experts on leadership, elite performance and personal growth. His ideas on self-mastery and organizational excellence have helped millions of people in over 35 countries and companies like FedEx, Nike, IBM , General Motors and Panasonic get to greatness. - Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley (commonly Meg Wheatley) is a writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior. Her approach includes systems thinking, theories of change, chaos theory, leadership and the learning organization: particularly its capacity to self-organize. Her work is often compared to that of Donella Meadows and Dee Hock. She describes her work as opposing "highly controlled mechanistic systems that only create robotic behaviors." - Tom Long
Tom Long (born 1958) is a Canadian political strategist. Long was president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the late 1980s. He played a key role in writing and implementing party leader Mike Harris' "Common Sense Revolution", and helping the Tories win the 1995 Ontario election that brought them to power. In 2000, Long ran for the leadership of the federal Canadian Alliance party in an attempt to make the new party more attractive to Ontario voters, … - John Adair
John Adair is recognized as being one of the most influential authorities on leadership and his work is regarded in line with motivational theorists such as Maslow, McGregor and Herzberg. - Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan, Khubilai Khan or "the last of the Great Khans", was a Mongol military leader. He was the fifth Khagan (1260–1294) of the Mongol Empire as well as the founder and the first Emperor (1271–1294) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. Born the second son of Tolui and Sorghaghtani Beki and the grandson of Genghis Khan, he succeeded his older brother Möngke in 1260. Kublai Khan's brother, Hulagu, conquered Persia and founded the Ilkhanate. - John W. Gardner
John William Gardner, President of the Carnegie Corporation, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson, was subsequently the founder of two influential national U.S. organizations, Common Cause and Independent Sector, as well as the author of numerous books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. - Carolyn Bennett
Carolyn A. Bennett, PC, MP, MD (born December 20, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario) is the Member of Parliament for the riding of St. Paul's, a constituency located in Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was formerly a candidate for its leadership. Dr. Bennett attended Havergal College, obtained her degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1974, and received her certification in Family Medicine in 1976. - Peter Suber
Peter Suber Professor of Philosophy Earlham College - Chin-Ning Chu
Chin-Ning Chu is a Chinese American business consultant, and a bestselling business management author in Asia and the Pacific Rim. The name "Chin-Ning" in Chinese means "Journey to Peace" or “Path to Peace.” Born in Tianjin, The People's Republic of China, Chu is a descendant of Yuan-Zhang Chu (personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor), the pauper who became the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644AD) by defeating the Mongol rule of Genghis Khan In 1949, … - Mark Norris
Mark Norris (born 1962) is an Albertan politician, former MLA and candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. Norris was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta and earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. He returned to Edmonton following his university years and established, in 1990, an advertising and sign manufacturing company. - Marco Pannella
Giacinto Pannella, better known as Marco Pannella (born May 2 1930) is an Italian politician. He is the historic leader of the Italian Radicals (the first expression of the Radicals in Italy was the Italian Radical Party, founded in 1955). - Stephen Mansfield
Stephen Mansfield (born 1958) is an American author who has written and continues to write books on history and leadership. Mansfield currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. - John A. Logan
John Alexander Logan (February 8, 1826 - December 26, 1886), was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States. - Maurizio Bevilacqua
Maurizio Bevilacqua, PC, MP, BA (born June 1, 1960 in Sulmona, Italy) is a Canadian politician. He was one of eleven candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada but dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006. He has been described in the media as a "right-of-centre, business friendly Liberal". Bevilacqua is a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. - Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an American social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management. She worked as a management and political theorist, introducing such phrases as "conflict resolution," "authority and power," and "the task of leadership." Follett was born into an affluent Quaker family in Massachusetts and spent much of her early life there. In 1898 she graduated from Radcliffe College. - Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 - November 16, 2000) was an United States civil rights leader, ordained reverend, and later a politician. His famous motto was "Unbought and Unbossed". - David Karwacki
David Karwacki, (born May 30 1965, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), a Canadian politician, was elected Leader of Saskatchewan Liberals in October 2001. He ran in the constituency of Saskatoon Meewasin in the 2003 provincial election, finishing second to now-provincial Justice Minister Frank Quennell. Educated in Saskatoon, David attended the University of Saskatchewan, graduating from the College of Commerce in 1989. - Yvon Godin
Yvon Godin is a Canadian politician. Godin is currently a New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Acadie—Bathurst since 1997. Godin is a former labour representative. He is the current Whip of the NDP caucus, and is the NDP critic of Official Languages, Employment Insurance, Intergovernmental Affairs and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. - John D. MacArthur
John Donald MacArthur (March 6, 1897 - January 6, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships. MacArthur made his fortune in the insurance business; in 1935, he acquired the Bankers Life and Casualty Company for $2,500. In subsequent years, he built up a business empire through acquisitions of many small insurance corporations. - Robert House
Robert J. House is a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, formerly of the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include leadership, motivation, personality and performance, as well as cross-cultural organizational behavior. Along with Martin Evans, House developed the path-goal model of leadership. - Marmaduke Pickthall
(Mohammed) Marmaduke William Pickthall, was a Western Islamic scholar, noted as a poetic translator of the Qur'an into English. A convert from Christianity to Islam, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, and E.M. Forster, as well as a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader. Educated at Harrow, he was born into a comfortable middle class English family, …
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