QUOTES FROM PREVIOUS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORA

"Building Europe is building Peace", Simone Veil, former President of the European Parliament, quoting Jean Monet. 1st GLF. Amman

"No one leads by fiat in the modern world" Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former UN Secretary General. 2nd GLF. Amman.

"Non-violent leadership requires maximum openness." Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the former Soviet Union. 3rd GLF. Amman.

"Leadership requires patience, perseverance, humility, commitment and compromise." Oscar Areas, former President of Costa Rica. 4th GLF. Istanbul.

"Six Sigma combines leadership and operational excellence to achieve maximum success." Muhsen Menguturk. Partner, Breakthrough Management.5th GLF.

"By deliberately bringing in turbulence, organizations are actually embracing innovations." Stan Gryskievicz, former Vice-President of the Center for Creative Leadership. 6th GLF. Istanbul.

"Leadership development grounded in the mind process of the arts acts as transformative thinking in leadership." Mr. John Cimino, President of Creative Leaps International. 6th GLF. Istanbul.

"Globalisation requires that we expand our horizons and learn to appreciate other modes of expression and behaviour." Mrs. Harriet Fulbright, former Executive Director of the Committee for the Arts and Humanities in the Clinton Administration. 7th GLF. Istanbul.

"Ultimately leadership is a value concept that cannot be separated from human development- a concept inextricably linked to peace, democracy, and development." Adel Safty, Founding UNESCO Chair of Leadership and President of the Global Leadership Forum.