"Daily Motivations"
Just play! Have fun. Enjoy the game! -- Michael Jordan
The way we choose to respond when others make mistakes can cause them to feel ashamed or can allow them to remember our kindness and share our stories with future generations. -- Michelle Sedas
People need me…they depend on me. We're doing something important here. And knowing that gives me the energy to carry the sack, lead the pack, and keep coming back. -- Santa Claus
Welcome to a special edition of Leadership Lessons - straight from the desk of Santa Claus.
Dear Santa:
I haven’t been a leader very long, and now I’m faced with replacing two top-notch team members whose special skills were needed elsewhere in our organization. I owe it to the rest of the team to fill these open positions with the best and brightest people. Please bring me a couple of suggestions to help me do that.
Staffing in Spokane
Dear Staffing:
Hiring the best people is not only something you owe to everyone on your team, but also something you owe to yourself! After all, YOU will have to deal with (and live with) whomever you select. In addressing your request, I went to one of my most trusted resources. Here are three strategies from Nuts’nBolts Leadership that certainly have helped me in the past:
Hire for Tomorrow’s Job. Don’t just hire for a position, hire for the future. Jobs, technologies, and markets are changing faster than ever. Look for people who are intelligent, quick learners, and adaptable to change.
Remember: To Get the Best, You Have to Test! The most reliable predictor of success on the job is not experience, education, or age. The best predictor is testing. Test for every important criterion in the job requirements.
Keep Your Ears Open for “We’s.” [In interviews] Listen for the “we” word …unless you’re looking for an “I” person. One trait of good team players – no matter their level or function – is the use of the word “we” when describing previous work situations and achievements.
Unquestionably, team member selection is one of the most important responsibilities of leadership. Take it seriously … do it right!
"The Patriot Post"
"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants." -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1
"Conservatism always has been and always will be a force to reckon with because it most closely approximates the reality of the human condition, based, as it is, on the cumulative judgment and experience of a people. It is the heir, not the apostate, to the accumulated wisdom, morality and faith of the people. ... Our challenge is not to retreat to the comfort of self-congratulatory exile but to sweat and bleed -- and be victorious -- in the arena of public opinion." --Tony Blankley
"For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president." --Ann Coulter
"Simple Truths"
212°: The Extra Degree
At 211 degrees...water is hot.
At 212 degrees...it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And steam can power a locomotive.
And, it's that one extra degree that...
Makes all the difference.
"The Web" - If you go hunting for crabs, you place each in an open bucket. There is no need to cover the bucket. As one crab tries to climb out of the bucket, other crabs will pull it down; preventing it from escape.
Some in life try to do likewise to others. - oyh
"Any organization will be only as successful as those at the bottom are willing to make it." -- General Bill Creech
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." -- John Steinbeck
"I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism." -- Theodore Roosevelt
“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” -- St. Jerome, Roman Catholic Church Father
"Alliance Defense Fund"
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
November 18, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom
Indiana’s ‘In God We Trust’ plate in, Indiana woman’s ‘GOD’ plate out.
ADF attorneys file suit against Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles for banning personalized plates that mention God while issuing its own.
INDIANAPOLIS — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging an Indiana statute that does not allow references to religion or a deity on personalized license plates even though the state itself issues “In God We Trust” specialty plates. ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit against the commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles on behalf of a woman whose application to renew her nine-year-old personalized plate was denied because of its reference to God.
“Christians shouldn’t be discriminated against for expressing their beliefs,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “The Bureau of Motor Vehicles is speaking out of both sides of its mouth when it sells license plates with the word ‘God’ but then rejects a citizen’s personalized plate that uses the same word.”
After having a personalized license plate reading “BE GODS” for nine years, Liz Ferris re-applied for the plate in March after realizing she had accidently let it lapse. In May, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles refused to renew the plate as “inappropriate due to form or content” because it violated its policy banning references to religion or a deity. Ironically, the state offers “In God We Trust” license plates to the public.
Ferris was inspired to apply for the specialty plate years ago by Christian musician Rich Mullins, who signed autographs with the phrase “Be God’s,” meaning, “Belong to God.”
A copy of the complaint in the lawsuit Ferris v. Stiver filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/FerrisComplaint.pdf.
ADF-allied attorney Michael Cork, of the Indianapolis-based firm Bamberger, Foreman, Oswald, & Hahn, LLP, is serving as local counsel in the lawsuit.
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
www.telladf.org
"The email Bag"
Sixty is the worst age!!
"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year-old man. ”You always feel like you have to pee and most of the time you stand there and nothing happens."
"Ah, that's nothing," said the 70-year-old. "When you're seventy, you don't have a bowel movement any more. You take laxatives, eat bran, sit on the toilet all day and nothing happens."
"Actually," said the 80-year-old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."
"Do you have trouble peeing, too?" asked the 60-year old.
"No, I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no problem at all."
"So, do you have a problem with your bowel movement?"
"No, I have one every morning at 6:30."
Exasperated, the 60-year-old said, "You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at 6:30. So what's so bad about being 80?"
"I don't wake up till 7:00."
(Y)our New House Republican Leadership
House Republicans finished their leadership elections today.
Here is the new line-up:
Republican Leader: John A. Boehner of Ohio
Republican Whip: Eric Cantor of Virginia
Republican Conference Chairman: Mike Pence of Indiana
Republican Policy Committee Chairman: Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan
Republican Conference Vice-Chair: Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington
Republican Conference Secretary: John Carter of Texas
National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman: Pete Sessions of Texas
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