CROSSING A BRIDGE

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CROSSING A BRIDGE

• (as long as you have a bridge you might as well
  cross it)

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Thank you for a great job!

• Carl Henn
• Nicole Belanger
• Latosha Frink
• Melissa Gentry
• Kathleen Giuliano
• Erin Goldstein
• Darryl Grant
• Uyen Phuong

• Alexander Kramer
• Derrick Montford
• Michele Pearlman
• Terita Stevenson
• Donna Perry-Lalley,
• Co-Chair
• Jacque Ballard, Chair

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Take a moment take 1

• Awards
• Mentoring Eileen
• Innovation Susan and her Branch
• Small Business Todd and the NCI
• Project Officer Cheryl. Wonderful PO response.
  Very competitive with strong write ups. Tough
  choice among the 5-6 best recommendations.
• Congratulations to All keep up the good work!

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The time spent here these three days has been
time spent building not one but many bridges.
We have met new people, spent time with
friends, heard ideas we can use and ideas that
give us greater resolve to act.We have shared
and learned. We have had time for reflection and
for thinking ahead. Now, lets take a moment
before we leave today to look around, to see
what we are taking with us on this bridge
crossing.
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What do we bring?

• No matter where we go, we take ourselves. Its
  probably a good idea to be true to that person.
  For most that is a healthy work in progress.
• Bring your common sense. You have it if you
  listen.
• Do not be afraid. You are not alone in this.
  Fear paralyzes, distorts, and isolates us. Lets
  not do that to ourselves. Ask for help and help
  others.

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What else?

• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the
  chasm of your solitude.  Antoine de
  Saint-Exupéry YAHOOO!
• Lets consider these too
• Service
• Personal Responsibility
• Commitment and Creativity
• Relationships
• Integrity
• Leadership

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Service

• Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It
  does.  William James
• We are civil servants. We serve the public. We
  should embrace that as part of our foundation.
• Our job is to help those who need our services
  and to do it in the right way.
• The perspective we bring to our job is important
  - not only what we do, but how we do it.
• Lack of appreciation is temporary, dont give up.
  On yourself or them.
• Service to others is the rent you pay for your
  room here on earth.  Mohammed Ali

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Personal Responsibility

• Don't bother just to be better than your
  contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better
  than yourself.  William Faulkner
• Ask yourself if you accept personal
  responsibility for your actions. Do you say what
  you mean and mean what you say?
• Do you own your actions?
• Do you slip into what is convenient or
  comfortable and avoid what might be hard?
• The world is moved along, not only by the mighty
  shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate
  of tiny pushes of each honest worker.  Helen
  Keller

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Commitment and Creativity

• It takes less time to do a thing right, than it
  does to explain why you did it wrong.  Henry
  Wadsworth Longfellow
• Create realistic strategies that you understand
  and can commit to.
• If you promise to do something, do it.
• Learn your profession from the ground up. Become
  the teacher.
• Bring your brain to work and use it every day.
  Really.
• Creative minds have always been known to survive
  any kind of bad training. Anna Freud

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Relationships

• The most important trip you may take in life is
  meeting people halfway.  Henry Boye
• Look for the similarities. We share much in
  common and can use those bridges for further
  exchanges.
• Learn to shift your focus.
• If it does not matter who gets the credit, it is
  amazing what can be accomplished.
• When it is not just about me, then everything
  else is possible.
• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life
  with a catchers mitt on both hands.  You need to
  be able to throw something back.  Maya Angelou

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Integrity

• If moral behavior were simply following rules, we
  could program a computer to be moral.  Samuel P.
  Ginder
• Is what we are doing something we would feel
  comfortable telling our Mothers?
• Does it pass the Washington Post test?
• Do the basics of what we do change based on who
  we are helping?
• Have we talked with someone about it not just
  for confirmation, but for honest feedback?
• There are three constants in life... change,
  choice and principles. Steven Covey

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Leadership

• I never had a policy I have just tried to do my
  very best each and every day.  Abraham Lincoln
• Leadership is a choice, not a position. But it
  is not an easy choice.
• Leaders prioritize multiple demands, theirs and
  others, and usually not in that order.
• Necessity makes some people leaders. They should
  lead anyway.
• A leader does best when accompanied by emotional
  intelligence.
• I suppose that leadership at one time meant
  muscle but today it means getting along with
  people.  Indira Gandhi

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all
  information, which is proof against all arguments
  and which cannot fail to keep a man in
  everlasting ignorance that principle is
  contempt prior to investigation. Herbert
  Spencer

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• Unless someone like you cares a
• whole awful lot, nothing is going to
• get better.  It's not.  Dr. Seuss

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HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME.HAVE A MEMORABLE
CROSSING