Today, Memorial Day, we give honor to those who have given their lives to give us more. No matter what rank they held in what service branch, each person who has served their country in this manner is a Leader and we thank you for giving of yourself and for far too many your life….
“Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.” ~Noah Porter
“Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.”~ Lao Tzu
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”~Martin Luther King, Jr.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.” ~Peter Drucker
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