Thanks to Lelah for reaching out to me!
Thanks to Emily for reaching out to me!
Many of you continue to be out of school and there are still several who do not have power. Do not worry about late work -- Weeks 8-9 work will not be counted late due to Hurricane Matthew. Take one day at a time! Use some of the time management strategies from Week 4 to help you prioritize and plan your week.
Weeks 1-9 remain open to allow you to make up missing assignments. They will close October 25.
How much can you learn from bad leaders? According to Samuel Smiles,
"We learn wisdom from failure much more that from success. We discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
Many of you did not consider yourself to be a leader until you learned to define leader differently. As a young leader, part of leading is failing. Sometimes that means we fail ourselves and sometimes that means we learn from watching someone else fail.
In today's society we focus on the bad more that we focus on the good. That epidemic is center-stage in this year's presidential election. Pointing out the failures is easy -- failures of the candidates, failures of the politicians in office, failures of the media. If we do not learn from the mistakes, then we will fail. What are the mistakes from this election? I do not mean the differing policy opinions...I mean the leadership mistakes. What can we learn about moving forward from this election? Keep in mind that continuing to bad mouth a person or an idea is not moving forward...it is actually moving backward.
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