02/21/2020
I had the pleasure of live captioning the Department of Labor's tribute to Women in Service: Military Leaders on Blazing Trails in the Armed Services.
Quote from Army Command Sergeant Major Michele Jones:
>> My leadership philosophy has remained the same, it's called the bones theory. Four bones; first bone is the backbone, having courage to stand up and be who you are, having the courage to step outside of what is the norm, having the backbone or courage to say the things most people won't say and having the courage or the backbone to go against the tide when the tide is going the wrong way.
The second bone, wishbone.
Believing and hoping and knowing it's possible, if you don't think it can happen, it will not.
The third bone -- write this down.
This is important.
The third bone is the funny bone. Instead of getting mad, instead of trying to get even, instead of being vengeful, laugh, let it go, come back, take another avenue of approach, go over it, under it, kick it out the way, giggle your way to success. Whatever that looks like for you.
And then the last bone is...nothing, I mean absolutely nothing happens if you don't get off your tailbone and make it happen.
You can talk about it all day.
So that's my life philosophy as well as my leadership philosophy and how it translates today, it is quite simple.
