Success and Leadership What is Your Legacy? Created by VaNessa Vollmer, Psy.D. www.SuccessRealized.com

Success or Less? Which of the following statements do you do tend to believe? “The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” -Henry Louis Mencken OR “It is the cynic who drives our passion to seek better alternatives than the cynic can even imagine.” -Dr. VaNessa Vollmer

Which of the following statements do you do tend to believe?

“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” -Henry Louis Mencken

OR

“It is the cynic who drives our passion to seek better alternatives than the cynic can even imagine.” -Dr. VaNessa Vollmer

Decisions Lead To Success • “ Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.” -Henry Louis Mencken • “ Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.” -Arie de Gues

• “ Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.”

-Henry Louis Mencken

• “ Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.”

-Arie de Gues

What is Your Leadership Legacy? The Choice is Yours… The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. – Pearl S. Buck or

The Choice is Yours…

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. – Pearl S. Buck

Excellence The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence . To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. – Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence .

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

– Pearl S. Buck

Successful Differences Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison -Every luxury and convenience that we enjoy today was created by an inventor.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

-Every luxury and convenience that we enjoy today was created by an inventor.

What’s your Style? Competitive? Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. Margaret Mead

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

Or Collaborative? To me success means effectiveness in the world , that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways. - Maxine Hong Kingston Do you work well with others so that everyone gains something from the efforts?

To me success means effectiveness in the world , that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

Do you work well with others so that everyone gains something from the efforts?

Patience, Persistence & Resiliency Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill Remember Patience & Persistence pays off! Resiliency keeps you on the road to achievement, fulfillment and continued success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

– Sir Winston Churchill

Remember Patience & Persistence pays off!

Resiliency keeps you on the road to achievement, fulfillment and continued success.

Resiliency I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -General George S. Patton Remember that a setback is sometimes a set up for something even greater. – Joel Osteen

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

-General George S. Patton

Remember that a setback is sometimes a set up for something even greater. – Joel Osteen

What’s Your Mindset? Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford The journey is the reward. -Chinese Proverb

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.

-Henry Ford

The journey is the reward.

-Chinese Proverb

Keys to Success There are six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. -William Menninger

There are six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. -William Menninger

Going Green? Grow Success Success is not an accident. “ Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for , believes and trusts in a future whether in the short or long term.” - Susan Hill

Success is not an accident.

“ Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful.

The gardener is by definition one who plans for , believes and trusts in a future whether in the short or long term.”

- Susan Hill

Grow Success to Value Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: There will either be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. - Anonymous

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: There will either be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. - Anonymous

Values, Knowledge & Ethics Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically , to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people. -Molleen Matsumura

Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us.

Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically , to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people. -Molleen Matsumura

Management or Leadership? Management is doing things right… Leadership is doing the right things. –Peter Drucker The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. -Theodore M. Hesburgh

Management is doing things right…

Leadership is doing the right things. –Peter Drucker

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

-Theodore M. Hesburgh

Balancing Leadership Decisions The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Successful Leadership Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. -Dale Carnegie You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' -George Bernard Shaw

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. -Dale Carnegie

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

-George Bernard Shaw

Walk the Talk – Light the Way People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross Let your light shine for those you lead.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

-Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Let your light shine for those you lead.

Successful Leadership Legacy Walk the Talk and Light the Way For Those You Lead For questions and more information: VaNessa Vollmer, Psy.D. www.SuccessRealized.com http:// www.linkedin.com/in/vanessavollmer

Walk the Talk and

Light the Way For Those You Lead

For questions and more information:

VaNessa Vollmer, Psy.D.

www.SuccessRealized.com

http:// www.linkedin.com/in/vanessavollmer