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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dignified
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donors do not reward good intentions.
- Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is what we do with our lives that counts.
- Irrelevant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is irrelevant.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one time, there was a stereotype that your Girl Scout leader was the mother of a Brownie, but increasingly, we are having young businesswomen and professional women who are not mothers but care about children.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selling cookies is usually a girl's first exposure to the world of business. She learns how to meet the public, talk about a product, sell the product, and is responsible for collecting money, giving change, and delivering the product. That's quite a business venture for a 7-year-old.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll meet people and tell them what I do, and their first reaction is usually, 'Oh, I love Thin Mints!' And you know, they are awfully good.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
- Little Girls
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is an art.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
An exceptional career is one that provides an opportunity to serve. It is a satisfying career in which you can't wait to get up in the morning to begin! You have a sense of purpose and mission. You know why you do what you do. It is a response to a call to serve. Once we do that, everything flows positively.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my life and determined the type of leader that I would become.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I'd one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had read everything Peter Drucker ever wrote.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.
- Embody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Compete
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that embraces and sustains.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.
- Increasingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see change as a challenge, not as a threat.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020