March 9, 2020: There’s a great little book, “What you accept is what you teach” by Michael Henry Cohen. Cohen’s first chapter is entitled, “The pursuit of mediocrity is almost always successful.”
As a Magnet organization, mediocrity is the opposite of what we pursue, which is excellence. What do we teach others through our actions? Do we teach integrity by doing the right thing, even when no one is looking? Do we teach compassion by the way we treat and talk to others? Do we follow through and do what we say we will do, demonstrating accountability? Do we teach respect by placing other’s needs before our own? Do we teach excellence through continuous learning and improvement?
Aristotle is credited with saying, “we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
How are you teaching excellence to those around you?
— Janet Leatherwood, CNO
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