“He needed to reassure us on the economy, and reassure people there is a future they can be positive about. People have been saying no to that question everyone asks ? 'Am I going to be better off a year from now than I am today?' ? and that has been going on for the past two or three years.”
Great leaders understand the importance of assigning the right people to the right positions. If you put the wrong person in the wrong place, no matter how talented or earnest they are, they will never reach the peak of their potential. Their strengths will be underutilized and they may never measure up to your expectations. Reassign to get the best out of others and the situation.
Simply through the process of living life and adapting to change, you may have lost something which you once enjoyed or took for granted. Reclaim your power by speaking up, standing up, standing out, and taking action. Reclaim your positivity by surrounding yourself with happy and proactive people.
“Rich has been an outstanding contributor to MAXIMUS since assuming the CFO role in 2002, and we will miss his considerable talents and leadership. He has brought increased discipline to our finance and accounting organization that will continue as his legacy, and we wish him every success in his new position.”
“He can change sides and he has great pressure from both sides. He's always jamming you, pushing you, lifting you, putting you down. It's very hard to establish a position where you can score from him. That makes him very difficult.”
“We hope what people are feeling comes from the gesture this little girl makes for her family. It comes from some enlightened position. We hope the ending feels like redemption for the family, coming through Eliza. And we hope people ascribe meaning to it, and bring their own personal experiences to it.”
“She wants to continue something she's loved for a long time. She's worked with our Junior Eagle program and she's great with kids. She has so many positive characteristics; she's encouraging and she can also push them, too. I think she'll make a great coach.”
“Evangelicals, through their own scholarship as well as the support and encouragement of such bodies as Tyndale Fellowship, the John Wesley Fellowship and, to a lesser extent, the Institute for Biblical Research, have been able to secure positions in academic institutions beyond those traditionally regarded as evangelical. This includes folks teaching at major public and private universities.”
...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about that. At one end of the spectrum is Thoreau, wishing to immerse himself in swamps for the positive vibrations; at the other end is Benjamin Franklin, who didn't like Nature. [p.91]
Dorian, I have wings!” “I can see that.” “What am I?” I asked, as chills ran up my spine. “I—I can’t be positive, because I have never seen one. But I think you’re a phoenix,” he said in amazement. “You are so beautiful.