Work On Your Goals Every Day...Holly Mosier

“Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.”

--Holly Mosier

 

The Courage To Be Original...Shania Twain

"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful."

--Shania Twain 

Stick With It!...Mara Schiavocampo

“The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.”

--Mara Schiavocampo, Journalist and Author, "Thinspired: How I Lost 90 Pounds -- My Plan for Lasting Weight Loss and Self-Acceptance"

#LeadershipTuesdays: Be Well-Rounded...Glen Llopis

"The best women leaders I know have circular vision that enables them to be well-rounded people. For example, they have their finger on the pulse of the culture and can talk to you about the latest pop-culture news – but then easily switch gears to give you their perspective on what is taking place on Wall Street. "

Glenn Llopis, "The Most Undervalued Leadership Traits Of Women", Forbes, 2/3/14

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. There is no new feature today.* However, please see our blog archives of recent features by checking the right side of this page. 

For other Leadership Tuesdays features on leaders like Indra Nooyi, Bishop Vashti McKenzie, and more, go to our website here: womenatliberty.com. You may also visit our Facebook page, Women Making History, for additional postings on leadership and other topics of interests to women. 

*Leadership Tuesdays is on vacation in August 2015.

The Formula For Real Success...Anthony Robbins

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.” 

--Anthony Robbins

What Will You Do With Your Defining Moment?...Richard Pound

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

--Richard Pound

Successfully Accomplishing Your Goals...Harvey MacKay

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

--Harvey Mackay

To Achieve Success...David Satcher

To achieve success, you should never be guilty of low aim.

--David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th Surgeon General of the U.S.

The Right Kind Of Success...Michelle Obama

"We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square."

--Michelle Obama

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. From a very early age, our parents or guardians teach us the foundational principles of what's right and what's wrong. As we get older and begin to mature, we find out that life can present us with some situations where we have to decide whether we will compromise our values and do the easy thing or buckle down and do the work required to accomplish our goals.

Success, everybody wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be admired and respected by their peers, and more importantly, richly rewarded for their efforts.  The question is, is all success good success? If I don't play by the rules and no one finds out, does it really matter? What's fair to you, may not be fair to me. How do I really know what the right thing to do is?

Our Leadership Tuesdays' features today help us with just those questions. Michelle Freeman, CEO/President of the Carl Freeman Companies and the Freeman Foundations, tells us in a brief video snippet that sometimes when negotiating business deals involving large sums of money, we can be tempted to step "over the line" and take shortcuts to achieve our end goal. But, she says, "that might make it easier, but that does not make it better." 

In a blog entitled, "Ethical Behavior Coupled With Integrity"*, Dr. Surya Ganduri stated that research has "found that companies displaying a ‘clear commitment to ethical conduct’ consistently outperform companies that do not display ethical conduct". In the long run, it is more profitable to do the hard thing and achieve "good success" than it is to do what may be easier and achieve short term success that may cost the organization considerable more in the future.  As First Lady Michelle Obama says in the quote above, "success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square". Dr. Ganduri's blog also offers five principles that will help leaders champion an organizational commitment to integrity.

To view the Michelle Freeman video snippet, click here.  To read the blog referenced above, visit the Women Making History Facebook page and click on the 3/25/14 posting.

*You can also view, "Ethical Behavior Coupled With Integrity", here: http://embcblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/ethical-behavior-coupled-with-integrity.html 

Leadership Tuesdays: Accomplishing Much...Helen Keller

“Alone we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.” 

--Helen Keller

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today's article is, Leaders, Keep An Eye [On] Your ‘I’ by Joyce E.A. Russell.  You can find this article posted on our Women Making History Facebook page.   

It can be tough sometimes to find the right balance between taking credit for your accomplishments and presenting accomplishments as a team effort.  As women we are encouraged to highlight our individual work and not be afraid to talk about our successes.  However, as a leader you have to find a balance.  If you lead a team, it is important to share credit with team members especially when they are present.  Most of our difficult business problems cannot be solved alone.  Good leaders and good team members are needed.  

To view today's article, go to the Women Making History Facebook Page. To view past Leadership Tuesdays' features, please go to the WOMEN AT LIBERTY home page.  

Leadership Tuesdays--Successful Leaders...Dan Rockwell

The more uncomfortable the conversation the more important it is. The more it matters, the tougher it is. Weak leaders choose manipulation over honest exchange. Wise leaders choose tough conversation over mediocrity. Successful leaders address issues others avoid.

--Dan Rockwell (@LeadershipFreak)

Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. 

Today we present an article by Dan Rockwell, "10 Power Tips for Dancing with Elephants". Being a good leader is a tough job that requires self-development, humility, good coaching and execution. In this article, Dan gives great tips on how to approach and have difficult conversations. Check out the article here.

To read past features on leaders like Ursula Burns, Indra Nooyi, Shelly Lazarus, Sara Blakely, Harriette Cole and Bishop Vashti McKenzie, click here.

Successful People...Anne McKewitt

"Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated."

--Anne McKewitt

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today's feature is, "How To Manage Your Personal Brand", an article by guest blogger, Tara L. Finney. 

 Tara is a marketing professional who works and lives in the Washington, DC area, but she is originally from New Jersey and still a fan of the New York Giants. (Skins Fans please forgive her.) In this article, she provides simple yet helpful advice on how to build a personal brand that will enable you to achieve your career goals.

To read the story, click here. For more on Leadership Tuesdays, click here.

If You Don't Try...Beverly Sills

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

— Beverly Sills, former American opera soprano

Choose Courage Over Fear...@ValorieBurton

“Choose courage over fear. That’s a decision. Most successful people tend to have a lot of courage. You have to see in your mind and have a lot of faith.” 

--Valorie Burton, Author of "Successful Women Think Differently" 

Check her out on NBC's Today Show on 4/9/13

http://www.valorieburton.com

Source:  From the article, "Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How Successful Women Do It", Executive coach Valorie Burton talks faith and strategy for upgrading your career via BlackEnterprise.com

Don't Be Distracted...Zig Ziglar

“Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”  ― Zig Ziglar

Leadership Tuesdays: Are We There Yet?...Nona

Until we become uncomfortable to the point of positive* decisive action with conditions and environments that assuage certain types of discrimination and racism in business, government, and other areas of our lives, we will slow the rate of progress needed to achieve a fair chance and equality for all.  --Nona

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today, Leadership Tuesdays continues a series looking at the why women are not seeking advance degrees in business at the same rate as they get other professional degrees. Also the discussion seeks to answer why women are not proportionately represented in senior leadership positions in business.

This past May, I was given the opportunity to talk with Dr. John T. Delaney, Dean of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, regarding the women empowerment and leadership program I launched in March 2011. The purpose of Women History Makers-DC, MD & VA and Leadership Tuesdays is to:

• Highlight and profile women role models in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia who have been trailblazers and pioneers 
• Provide resources to develop, strengthen and encourage women to pursue leadership.
• Provide online and offline opportunities for mentoring and motivation that enable women to live better lives. 

(See womenatliberty.com for more information.)

Given the low rate of women in corporate senior executive and Board of Directors’ positions in U.S.companies, I decided that I wanted to focus our talk on the representation of women in those areas. I also wanted to find out how Katz is addressing this problem in its MBA and Executive Education programs. Further, I wanted to know if Katz was involved in any partnerships and/or research to: 1) explain the cause for the lack of women and minorities in leadership positions; and 2) improve the status quo.

Some of the statistics that informed my conversation with Dr. Delaney came from "Women In America, Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being", a 2011 Report released by the White House Council on Women and Girls. (See Leadership Tuesdays for the statistics.) As mentioned in his earlier guest blog forLeadership Tuesdays, The Great Business School Challenge Hidden In Plain Sight, Delaney discussed...

For more, click here...

*This is not an endorsement of any type of behavior or actions that endeavors to restrict free speech or freedom of religion.

Keep Your Eye On The Prize...Cathy L. Hughes

You are going to succeed eventhough it may not come when you think it's going to come or when you want it to come.  It's gonna always be right on time for you and your circumstance. You keep your eye on the prize. 

-- Cathy L. Hughes, Chairperson and Founder of Radio One, Inc.


http://www.radio-one.com/



Cathy Hughes Radio One 30th Anniversary from Radio One on Vimeo.

Success In Spite of Fear...Mario Cortes

"Nothing can sabotage winning, except for fear of losing. Success usually lies just beyond failure."  --Mario Cortes

Picture credit:  http://jhbcc.org/

The Key To Unlocking Your Potential...Liane Cardes

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. --Liane Cardes

To Succeed In Life...Reba McEntire

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.  --Reba McEntire