Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
Interpretation
Women have endless opportunities in their careers, but preparation is essential for success.
Frances Hesselbein highlights the evolving role of women in the workforce, where they are increasingly participating in their professional lives for extended periods. The quote emphasizes that while the opportunities for women are vast and varied, achieving success in any chosen path requires thorough preparation and planning.
In practice
This quote would be powerful in a women's leadership conference to inspire attendees about the importance of preparation.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.
In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.
Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
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