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Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
Age is irrelevant.
Tears belong within the family.
Donors do not reward good intentions.
It is what we do with our lives that counts.
I had read everything Peter Drucker ever wrote.
We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.
When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'
Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.
You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.
If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.
Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.
It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.
When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.
I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls.
When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.
The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.
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.
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.
With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.
Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.
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.
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
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.
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.
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
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.
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.
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.
