Directors Quote by Richard V. Allen

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies…

— Richard V. Allen

There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions,…

— David Brooks

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

— Jim Cantrell

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The…

— Mitt Romney

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten…

— Richard V. Allen

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains…

— Richard V. Allen

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.

— John Dickerson

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The transformation will come from leadership.

— W. Edwards Deming

You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where…

— Kellyanne Conway

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the…

— Benjamin Wittes

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

— Warren G. Bennis