Meaningful Mondays

"The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate." ... Gruenter and Whitaker

Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures.

Freedom is not free.

The Future is in Your Imagination, The Present is Now. Life Coach and Leadership Guru, Lee Brower, discusses how being in the present will help you be a better leader.

Self Actualization is a great characteristic of Leadership, but it is not the lonely road.  If you want to get to a destination fast, go by yourself... if you want to get to a GREAT destination, then you better go together. - Lee Brower

Mothers know the struggles of the caterpillar, the loneliness of the cocoon,  and enjoyed the beauty of the butterfly.

Coffee, Hot Chocolate, or Tea? How leaders with COMPASSION empower others.

1. Lifelong learning:     a. Einstein: “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”     b. Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”  - Einstein     c. “The mind is not a container to be filled; it is a fire to be kindled and stoked.”  - LMB 2. Responding – The Green R.      a. Red R versus Green R      b. Curiosity is the opposite of choosing sides.  - LMB 3. Growing—      a. “I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”  - Eleanor Roosevelt      b. Misfortunes make us wise… when we ask why… not why did this happen to me. “Nothing is worse than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. People die when curiosity goes.”  - Graham Colin Swift

"When you look into the eyes of a child you see untarnished love, hope, self esteem, forgiveness and determination. For the world to have a bigger future, we must rediscover the eyes of a child."

"Wisdom is pure intelligence before the contamination of thought."