Your Actions Will Define You...@vnona

If you're not a thief, you will not steal whether you're a beggar on the street or the CEO. Your #behavior defines who you are. If you want to change the things you don't like about yourself, you have to change your behavior. You must also change your environment and who you hang out with. Eagles hang out with eagles.

#LeadershipTuesdays: Go After Your Dreams...Carmen Nava

"If you really want to go after your goals and your dreams, it does involve taking some risks. Sometimes letting go is the hardest part, yet it opens all sort of doors.”

--Carmen Nava (retired), Senior Vice President, AT&T

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides #LeadershipTuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. Today's quote comes from Carmen Nava in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Ms. Nava had more than 30 years of experience in operations, marketing, external affairs, human resources, customer service and sales. She retired from AT&T in 2017 and now is Chair of University of Southern California’s, her alma mater, Marshall School of Business.

This L.A. native took risks to get to where she is now and through her quote above she encourages leaders to do the same. She says that she left a wonderful community, home, and schools in L.A. to get the experience she needed to have the career she wanted. She resides in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Robert. They have one daughter.

Her story encourages us to take risks and not be afraid to leave the familiar in order to get the experience we need to obtain senior leadership positions.

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Your Actions Define You...Thomas Jefferson

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

--Thomas Jefferson

You Can Make A Difference...Gladys De La Mora

"Making a difference is always possible, especially with persistence and dedication."

--Gladys De La Mora

Living Your Own Best Selling Story...Ruby Garcia

"We can choose to be a character in a story written out by someone else or we can choose to be the author of our own story."

--Ruby Garcia

#LeadershipTuesdays: Are You A Go-Getter?...Mary Barra

"'I'm reminded of a plant manager who asked his lead engineer to explain her hiring process. She said, 'Well, we fill a bathtub with water and we offer the applicant a teaspoon, a teacup, or a bucket. Then we ask him or her to empty the tub.' 'I get it,' the manager said. 'A go-getter would use the bucket because it's faster.' 'No,' the engineer said, 'a go-getter will pull the drain plug.'" 

--Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors
(Kettering University commencement address, 2013)

Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com provides Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. Today we are featuring a quote that will make you laugh out loud and think, "what would I have done?".

A person who is interested in bettering themselves and their employees is always seeking opportunities to develop their staff. 
Mary Barra's quote provides us with a comical view of a leadership test. More so, it causes us to examine our own ability to think critically and solve problems. So often we get caught up in using a "bucket" approach to solve a problem because that's the tool we have been given. But sometimes you have to allow yourself to think outside of the box and envisioned a solution that does not utilize your current tools. The problem still gets solved, but it is solved in a more efficient way.

Good leaders want their employees to think critically because in the end, the employee is engaged in the organization through their contribution, the organization reaps the benefit of the contribution and the leader is recognized over time for his influence and ability to make great hiring decisions.

Read the quote again and let it inspire you  to think how you can develop a similar test that encourages go-getters in the organization. And by the way, how would you solve the problem of the bucket, the spoon and the tub full of water?
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Looking and Moving Forward

"Keep looking forward because that is where you'll find opportunity."

--Karina Garcia