A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.
I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls.
I had read everything Peter Drucker ever wrote.
The Millennial mindset is one on the pulse of changing technology. They multi-task and enjoy a challenge. They need projects that utilize their knowledge and skills that can connect with their philosophical or deeper interests.
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.
I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.
I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.
Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.
We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.
We see change as a challenge, not as a threat.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.
When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.
