Healing Your Soul Through Love and Trust ...Julie Lessman

Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

Julie Lessman

There Is Beauty In Truth...Jose Harris

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

José N. Harris

Trust Is A Gift...@vnona

In any relationship, trust is a priceless gift. Don't squander it.

--Nona O.

Trust Me...H.L. Mencken

"It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together."

--H. L. Mencken

Opening Your Heart...Kirstie Alley

“It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's no point in being here.”
 
--Kirstie Alley

Real Love Is...@vnona

Real love is when you desire your loved one's dreams to come true instead of wanting them just to fulfill the dreams you have for them. 

--Nona O.

Lasting Impressions...Dixie Waters

“You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart.”

--Dixie Waters

Let's Stay Together...Happy Black Marriage Day!

I, I'm so in love with you

Whatever you want to do is all right with me

'Cause you make me feel so brand new

And I want to spend my life with you

Let me say that since, baby, since we've been together

Loving you forever is what I need

Oh let me be the one you come running to

I'll never be untrue

Oh let's, let's stay together...

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Happy National Black Marriage Day!!

Dedication to all of the families who are doing
what it takes to stay and grow together!

True Love...William Shakespeare

“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”

--William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

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Trust and Integrity...Brian Tracy

"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity." 

--Brian Tracy

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. This blog is Part III of the series, "Are We There Yet? My Climb and Journey". In this blog, I talk about a few bumps in the road or incidences at AT&T that occurred while I was getting my MBA in an Executive Education program at the University of Pittsburgh.  These incidences became a turning point in my career.  

A conversation with John T. Delaney, PhD., Dean of the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, about the current state of women in executive leadership and why women do not choose to get advanced business degrees at the same rate they obtain professional degrees in other areas, like law and medicine, was the catalyst for this series.

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As a company, AT&T was committed to diversity. First of all, they had a company statement to support diversity and denounce discrimination. They also provided diversity training for their employees. In fact, across all of their divisions, AT&T had implemented by the late 1990’s all of the steps referenced in Frank Kalman’s recent article on Diversity-Executive.com, “Five Steps to Embed Diversity and Inclusion Into Organizational Culture”.[i]  (See below for the “Five Steps”) Personally, I saw their support of my business education at the University of Pittsburgh as a demonstration of this commitment. However, two specific incidents that occurred during my MBA program with my local division’s leadership left me with a very negative impression of my local management.

Let me start off by saying it was the company’s policy that once they decided to support an employee in an Executive Education program, they would be fully funded for the duration of the program.  However, my division, without cause, tried to re-nig on certain parts of its financial commitment to my Executive Education program. While I was completing my MBA program, I along with several other employees in my group was moved into a new division because of the dissolution of an international only government marketing team. As time drew near for the capstone class trip that would include travel to Prague in the Czech Republic, Italy, and France, my new division...

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Love and Kindness...Barbara DeAngelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.  

--Barbara DeAngelis

Congresswoman Gwen Moore...On Relationships

It’s important to manage “it”.  You have to schedule your life around maintaining a relationship. Relationships are work.  And if you’re not willing to put the work in, you’re not going to have a relationship.  --Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) 

Quote from "Real Talk, Real Women (Not For Sistahs Only)" sponsored by Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI),  Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, 8/24/11

Leadership Tuesdays: Be Helpful To Each Other...Madeleine Albright

"Women need to be helpful to each other and...try not have a Queen Bee complex"  --Madeleine Albright, First woman to become a United States Secretary of State

This week Leadership Tuesdays features former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.  Every Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. To see this week feature and for more information on WOMEN AT LIBERTY's Leadership Tuesdays, see http://www.womenatliberty.com.

Treating One Another As Well As We Treat The Guys...Peggy Klaus

If we really want to clear one of the last remaining hurdles to gender parity and career success, let’s start treating one another not worse or better, but simply as well as we already treat the guys — or better yet, the way we want our nieces, daughters, granddaughters and sisters to be treated. 

--Peggy Klaus, Workplace Communication and Leadership Expert

http://www.klausact.com

Source:  Peggy Klaus, Preoccupations: A Sisterhood of Workplace Infighting, New York Times, 1/11/09

No Competition For God's Promises To You...Joyce L. Rodgers

"A spirit of judgment will make you say to yourself, Who does she think she is? She thinks she's all that.  Or, What did she do to deserve that? I know someone who deserves it more!  Instead of concentrating on what God is doing for you and reflecting upon what He has promised to you, you jealously zero in on what He is doing for someone else.  What God bestows upon another in no way will take away from what he promises to give to you."  

--Joyce L. Rodgers,  Founder and CEO of Primary Purpose Ministry, Inc., Evangelist, Author and Conference Speaker (Except from the book, Fatal Distractions) 

http://www.joycerodgers.org

Conversations Support Relationships...Louise Perrin

Conversations support relationships that ultimately lead to better quality outcomes.  --Louise Perrin,Senior Vice President, Heartland Zone, State Farm Insurance 

Question:  What is your definition of a 'real' conversation or true communication?


Source: http://www.womenworking.com/true-to-yourself

Trust, The Root of Success...Stephen R. Covey

Trust--or the lack of it--is at the root of success or failure in relationships and in the bottom-line results of business, industry, education, and government.  

--Stephen R. Covey, Author

Discover the Best In Others...William Arthur Ward

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”  --William Arthur Ward

Soul-Mates

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown

Leadership Tuesdays: Team Effort

"No one does anything alone.  It's a team effort."  
--Deborah Alderson, President-Defense Solutions Group, SAIC


(Editor's Note:  The best time to remember this is when giving your acceptance speech)

Every Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. For more information on WOMEN AT LIBERTY's Leadership Tuesdays, see http://www.womenatliberty.com.


Source: The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Leadership Five Questions -- Deborah Alderson