Tahira K. Hira, Professor

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Success and Leadership

• Tahira K. Hira, Professor
• Executive Assistant to the President
• tkhira_at_iastate.edu
• Iowa State University
• Member-US Presidents Advisory Council on
  Financial Literacy
• www.eng.iastate.edu/tkhira

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Background

• Long journey-east to west
• Schooling, professional life
• Role of Fulbright scholarship
• Family of birth and acquired families
• Global citizen
• My passion and beliefs
• Education for me every one else
• Freedom of thought and action
• Sky is the limit
• Giving and forgiving

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Neal Donald Walsch says .

• Life Is not a process of discovery, life is a
  process of creation
• No condition is good or bad, all conditions are
  temporary, nothing stays same, nothing remains
  static, which way a thing changes depends on you.
• Conversations with God an uncommon dialogue.
• Book 1. Neal Donald Walsch 1996

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Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and capacity to
respond to what is needed in a situation. And
many of us have that opportunity to give
leadership. You may be in a group of twenty
people, and you know something needs to be done.
You may not be the leader, but you are going to
give leadership to the group by responding in
some way that you help it to move. You can open
the gate for others to come in.
Leadership is the willingness and the capacity
to respond to what is needed in a situation
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True Leaders in my observation

• Have integrity, are confident and passionate
• Care enough to make a difference
• Are able to deal with failure
• Take risks
• Have trust in others
• Can make change happen
• Take care of the weakest person in the system
• Are ladder builders, they are not ladder climbers

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What does success look like for me?

• Being able to serve the organization you care for
  in all different ways
• My almamater recognizes your work
• My student becomes president of a large
  university
• My work is recognized at the highest level, and I
  am invited to Oval office
• I am content, at peace, sleep well at night
• I am fortunate to have someone to share good and
  bad of life with

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Power of the mind

• As you think, so you are
• as you continue to think,
• so you remain.
• (As You Think. Marc Allen, 1991. P45,The Classic
  Wisdom Collection

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Audrey Hepburns beauty tips

• For attractive lips, speak words of kindness
• For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people
• For a slim figure, share your food with the
  hungry
• For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers
  through it once a day
• For poise, walk with the knowledge youll never
  walk alone

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Read, travel, keep learning

• Books
• Harem from within (Fatima Mernissi)
• When bad things happen to good people (Harold
  Kushner)
• As You Think. (Marc Allen)
• Conversations with God an uncommon dialogue.
  Book 1. (Neal Donald Walsh)
• Three feet from gold (Sharon Lechter)
• Radio NPR Speaking of Faith, This American Life
• Authors
• Karen Armstrong
• Parker Palmer

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Leadership Team at Iowa State
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A Historic Moment
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• My Background
• You in the new millennium
• Developing a philosophy of your own
• How to plan to be successful
• Past, present and future
• Living in a global environment

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Thanks for the Opportunity!
Your questions Comments, or suggestions