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Reviews of Frances Hesselbein

"What makes Frances outstanding is her ability to balance a clear mission repeated and repeated so that everybody who works with her knows it. She has the ability to adapt to opportunity very quickly. She has the integrity to think through the priority needs of the organization and of the people in it, and the willingness and ability to find the support for change and to build it."

Peter F. Drucker Lessons in Leadership, September 25, 1997

"Frances Hesselbein devoted herself to changing lives for the better...She has worked to imbue other nonprofit groups with the hallmarks of true leadership; openness to innovation, willingness to share responsibility, and respect for diversity. With skill and sensitivity, Frances Hesselbein has shown us how to summon the best from ourselves and our fellow citizens."

President Bill Clinton Presidential Medal of Freedom Citation, January 15, 1998

"Ultimately a leader's ability to...galvanize co-workers resides in both understanding of oneself and of co-worker's needs and wants, and with what Frances Hesselbein has called their mission. Frances Hesselbein is a leader in whom competence, vision and virtue exist in nearly perfect balance."

Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader, 1989