Kelly Vohs

Healthy organizations are places where you find high levels of communication, consistency, and trust. Open communication. Consistent focus and action. Trust is high.

If you expect to facilitate communication and maintain focus, you must bring your team together on a consistent basis. People don’t dislike meetings. They dislike you wasting their time.

• A Leader is meant to do things for teams that they can’t do for themselves.
• They always find themselves where they can exert the most influence.
• They must combine professional will with personal humility.
• They must work hard to connect with everyone around them and create authentic relationships built on trust.

We have a responsibility to leave the people and places we touch better than they found them.

So this is why you should work hard to build an organization that does something meaningful. Something that adds some positive energy to our world. A place where people can do good work and feel good about their mission. Because everyone wants a great place, surrounded by great people, to do meaningful work.

This isn't about disabilities. This is about people who don't make excuses.

Ten years ago I was coming out of a grocery store and watched a man in a wheelchair pushing his grocery cart to his car. A full-sized grocery cart.

“If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath—a wolf.

Dare to help each other. We all have hopes, dreams, and struggles. We must help each other with all of those.

Work hard and never forget that we are what we do for each other. We are here to help others win.

Keep working hard.