Overcoming IV

 OVERCOMING

By Augustus White III with Jon Land and David Chanaoff

Post Hill Press; January 26, 2021

Hardcover: 224 pages; $28.00

ISBN-13 978-1642935486; ISBN-10 1642935484

 

Pre-orders Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Lessons.../dp/1642935484

 

This year we grappled with, for one, pandemic related anxiety. It's an honor to be profiled in Dr. Augustus White III’s new book, OVERCOMING, about people who address adversity with positive impacts. Our stories show how, in apparent hopeless times, we too can #OVERCOME!

 

Male survivors may fear being discounted when disclosing trauma. Some keep it inside and feel shame and rage and cope destructively. Survivors who confront and share it can heal. Good people helped me #OVERCOME major traumas. You can too. You’re not alone. Healing is possible.

Take Off

Bullying undermines retention, productivity, goodwill, morale, safety, and innovation.

#LeadersArentBullies

"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." --Warren Bennis

#healthyworkplaces #stepup #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #DignityAtWorkAct

Overcoming III

 OVERCOMING

By Augustus White III with Jon Land and David Chanaoff

Post Hill Press; January 26, 2021

Hardcover: 224 pages; $28.00

ISBN-13 978-1642935486; ISBN-10 1642935484

Preorder at: https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Lessons-Triumphing-Adversity-Humanity/dp/1642935484

Overcoming II

Male trauma survivors may fear being discounted when disclosing childhood abuse and loss.  

We often keep it bottled up inside, feeling blame, guilt, shame, confusion, and rage at what  happened to us.  We may try to cope in destructive ways. 

With licensed professionals, survivors can confront and share trauma to start the healing process and recover. 

Healthy Counselors, Coaches, Teachers, and Teammates helped me #OVERCOME a rough childhood.  

You can too.  It’s not your fault. You’re not alone.  Healing is possible. It’s never too late to heal.

Overcoming

 

This year we grappled with many highs and lows including pandemic related anxiety.

It’s an honor be profiled in Dr. Augustus White III’s soon to be released book, OVERCOMING.

 

It’s about everyday people who face and overcome adversity to make healthy and constructive impacts.

 

Dr. White is a fellow former Brown football player, and a renowned physician.

 

I respect him for compiling these stories showing how, in apparent hopeless times, we too can and shall #OVERCOME!

Choose to Respond vs. React

 

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

"Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." - Hans Selye

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Elephant Rock Beach

 

Light Beats Darkness

 

Build Self Esteem

Strong leaders establish anti-bullying policies to create healthy workplaces.  They offer earnest and expeditious responses to employee maltreatment. They address & correct demeaning behaviors. Toxic companies allow abuse to fester, and excuse bullying as a joke, and not illegal.

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." --Sam Walton

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Huge yet Sweet Local Oysters

 

Consequence

"We cannot change anything until we (acknowledge) it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." - Carl Jung

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Resiliency

Circa 1928, my paternal grandfather's immediate family at their Kearney, NJ home.  

Left to right; my great aunts Wanda and Agnes, my grandfather Alphonse, my great uncle Peter, and great grandparents, Julius and Nellie Paknis, Lithuanian Immigrants.  

They represented the "greatest generation" by staying positive and compassionate while   transcending two great wars, the great depression, and losing my grandfather's eldest brother, Julius, to the 1918 Spanish Influenza.

 

Dignity at Work Act

Federal and State support for Dignity at Work / Anti-Bullying Laws and Policies help employees identify, address, prevent, and transcend bullying. 

These statutes influence whether workplace bullying targets may receive legal protection or take legal action.

 #LeadersArentBullies

"We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works." - Margrethe Vestager 

#healthyworkplaces #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Identify and Remove Obstacles

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Molière

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Followership

 "Treat your (people) as you would your own beloved (children). And they will follow you into the deepest valley." -- Sun Tzu

#leadersarentbullies #stepup #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct
#DignityAtWorkAct

A supervisor’s emotional intelligence and approach to problems  can determine whether bullying is perceived as a workplace problem.

#LeadersArentBullies

Bridge

 

 Left to right, my paternal grandfather, great aunt, great grandfather, a Lithuanian immigrant, and great uncle admiring George Washington Bridge construction, circa 1928.  My grandfather was 15. 

Truth

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." ~Edgar J. Mohn

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Expectations

 “There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations” ― Jodi Picoult

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” ― Paulo Coelho

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #stepup

Expectations affect stress. The bigger the gap between expectations & reality, the greater the stress.  Workers who experience steady and predictable management practices are less likely to consider themselves stressed or bullied.  #leadersarentbullies

Self Awareness

Keys to Individual and Organizational Health:

"Self-analysis requires reconsideration of who we think we are. Self-awareness requires us to reassess where we came from and where we are going." - Kilroy J. Oldster

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Ahhhh

 

Value Others

 To fly right, geese work together.

"To add value to others, one must first value others." --John Maxwell

#healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Bullied and belittled employees expect to be abused by their bosses.   They don’t feel worthy of better treatment!  A bullying boss diminishes worker self-worth to control with power.  Healthy leaders elevate thought and conduct. 

#LeadersArentBullies

Multiple Sum Outcomes

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
-Jim Rohn

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Core Values Create Culture

 "We believe it’s most important to develop core values you can commit to, so you’re willing to hire and fire based on them. If you do this, then you’re well on your way to building a company culture that is in line with the brand you want to build." — Tony Hsieh

#healthyworkplaces #stepup #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct
#DignityAtWorkAct

Toxic workplace cultures are characterized by unclear and unaligned goals, roles, and processes.  There are no respectful engagement guidelines or boundaries.  Officials show little  commitment to employee growth and development.   Bullies are nurtured.  #leadersarentbullies 

Love and Power

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Vision

 "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." - Dalai Lama

#healthyworkplaces #stepup #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #DignityAtWorkAct

Bullies in executive positions seek control by leveraging this perceived power gap in their favor.  Transparent communication with shared understanding of clear goals, roles, processes, and decision making authority can foil their ruse.

#LeadersArentBullies

Speak the Truth

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" - Samuel Adams

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Win - Win Outcomes

In toxic workplaces, USA employee inalienable rites like life, liberty, the pursuit of #happiness...are discounted to bestow power and happiness on the few, misguided, bad folks in charge.  #LeadersArentBullies

"The win-win outcome is America's fundamental business premise. Instead of wasting time trying to defeat one another, they find ways so everyone gains and goes home satisfied. In Israel, this doesn't work. Victory is only seeing your rival's body lying trampled." - Yair Lapid

 

 

"Appearances are often deceiving." - Aesop

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

 

Realistic Goals

 When workers do not have concrete goals, roles, or processes, and, to control, bullying bosses create moving targets, to hold workers accountable for subjective and unrealistic results, tension, conflict and scapegoating run high and trust is lost.

#LeadersArentBullies

"The trouble with not having a clear  goal is that you can spend your (work) life running up and down the field and never score." –Bill Copeland

#healthyworkplaces #stepup #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #DignityAtWorkAct

Trust and Innovation

"In a high trust workplace, therefore, (a person)  can be creative and “innovate”, because (he / she has) more freedom and autonomy to experiment without the fear of retribution for failure." - friend since childhood, Ross Smith, in Trust Advisor Associates, Trust Matters Blog

#leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct

Happy New Year to You and Yours!