{"id":38,"date":"2011-06-05T19:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/leadership\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:24:38","slug":"truman-leadership-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/truman-leadership-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Truman Leadership Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.<br \/>\n~<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotesbyrote.com\/quotes\/quotee\/241\/1.html\">Harry S Truman<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leadership means not waiting for history to happen. \u00a0It means taking the steps of shaping events toward a desired end. This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotesbyrote.com\/quotes\/quote\/2255.html\"> leadership quote<\/a> is an important reminder that progress comes from leaders taking action and making history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ~Harry S Truman Leadership means not waiting for history to happen. \u00a0It means taking the steps of shaping events toward a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}