Wow, time is flying. I just looked at the date and it struck me. I don’t think I’m ready to leave just yet and now it’s all going to feel crammed.
Last night we saw Little John Nee and the Dead Rooster Blues. He was the 360 performer, incorporating spoken word, original music, and acting to tell a story. VERY enjoyable and very talented.
Work today was thoroughly enriching. I finished Emma (last night) and there is a quote from my next book, Servant Leadership that I find apropos: “old rules of traditional, hierarchical, high-external control, top-down management are being dismantled… They are being replaced by… a sense of vision that people are drawn to, and united in, that enables them to be drive by motivation inside them toward achieving a common purpose. This has changed the role of manager from one who drives results and motivation from the outside in, to one who is a servant-leader – one who seeks to draw out, inspire, and develop the best and highest within people from the inside out. The leader does this by engaging the entire team or organization in a process that creates a shared vision, which inspires each person to stretch and reach deeper within himself or herself, and to use everyone’s unique talents in whatever way is necessary to independently and interdependently achieve that shared vision.”
This quote reminds me a great deal of our manager and the process we’re currently undertaking. Today we met with the consultant, worked a bit with the core values and moved on to the core principle. We were able to decide on one and just reading it makes me excited about the work I’m doing. The whole process is doubly exciting as I’m learning more about team development and leadership to bring back to the RYLA program as well as taking part in the foundation building of an organization that I’m really excited about.
“To provide the opportunity for recovery and re-emergence.” Similar to the RYLA model, we provide physical and mental challenges and the structure of mutual support to allow each person to develop greater confidence and abilities.
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Interesting news articles:
- The Coming Activist Age by David Brooks
- Everybody's Business: Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics by Ben Stein
- While the U.S. Spends Heavily on Health Care, a Study Faults the Quality - "... the United States spends more than twice as much on each person for health care as most other industrialized countries. But it has fallen to last place among those countries in preventing deaths through use of timely and effective medical care."
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