Leadership Quote

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick

• What are you not paying attention to and how can you start?
• What little things does your family do?
• What do the people that you work with do well?
• What would it be like without these people?

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." 

G.B. Stern

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." 

- Willie Nelson

"The best leaders convene conversations.  They set the stage that enables others to develop solutions."

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

• How much are you doing because you know how or it seems easier?
• How involved or empowered do others in your unit feel to help with solutions?
• How much brain power and how many ideas are wasted daily because of ill use and timing?
• What can you do to help promote individuals or groups to help tackle tough issues?

"Anything I've done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death."

                                                                   Betty Bender

• Do you avoid situations that you perceive as conflict?
• Do you avoid doing things that are anxiety provoking?
• Do you perceive that you "can't" do those things or are you unwilling to try?
• How will you learn, grow and move past them?   
• Make a plan.  It's very rewarding.

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”