A Good Fight...Kamala D. Harris

“Any fight – any good fight – is born out of optimism.”

--Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator, 32nd Attorney General of California

Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

Legacy...Pericles | Kobe Bryant (1978--2020)

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

-- Pericles

Happy 2020!

"At the dawn of this new day, year and decade, may positivity possess you, grace embrace you, and your vision propel you into greatness."

--Nona O., Founder, womenatliberty.com and #WomenMakingHistory 

Don't Let People Sidetrack You...Taylor Swift

“There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success… but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going… you’ll know that it was you and the people who love you that put you there.”

--Taylor Swift, Grammy Award-Winning Musician & Songwriter 

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Are You Ready To Lead?

Happy #LeadershipTuesday! When fear drives our behavior, we operate from a position of scarcity and exclusion. We devalue people who are different from us because we perceive their uniqueness as a threat. That's not good leadership.

Great leaders build a team of talented players who have different strengths but play in such a way that they maximize the total value of the team. They develop people and help them see both their strengths and weaknesses as opportunities to partner with others. Great leaders recognize a team win is a win for everyone! 

Abuse of Power, Code And System...Frederic Bastiat

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men [or women] in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."  

--Frederic Bastiat

#LeadershipTuesdays: Leading Ethically...Linda Fisher Thornton

Ethical leaders set the tone for an organization. Their example is the levees for team members. How they handle breaches in organizational values will determine how the organization operates both internally and externally.

--Nona O., Founder, Women Making History/womenatliberty.com