Matt Paknis Leadership Development

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." + Henry David Thoreau "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." - Plato "I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power." - Patricia Cornwell "Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot." - Thomas Moore "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #SpeakUp #Decency #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #metoo

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides." - Elie Wiesel "The human spirit may be muted, but it cannot be silenced." - Leslyn Lewis "Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced." - Mike Leach #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #SpeakUp #Decency #BeTransparent #metoo   #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"Other ailments evoke sympathy. We get help. Mental illness begets, 'Oh, they're crazy.' We're belittled." - Chris Wood "Emotional well-being is more than not having mental illness. It's reaching closer to full potential, being resilient in the face of adversity." - Vivek Murthy #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #mentalhealth #Decency #metoo #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact Mental traumas are real “injuries.” Don’t let them be minimized.

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford "Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society." - Vince Lombardi "We multiplies the power of I." - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel #leadersarentbullies #Decency

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." - George Washington #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #MentalHealth #Decency #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact  

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage." - Ambrose Bierce "Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry." - Conrad Burns #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #leadersarentbullies #Decency #metoo  #mentalhealth  #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." -William James "Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don’t break when battered by a storm. - Melanie Greenberg #HealthyWorkplaces #Decency #metoo #mentalhealth #BeTransparent #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact When stress goes unabated, it compromises a target’s mental health, and when unseen psychological trauma is caused by unsafe, stressful work conditions, it’s every bit as damaging as physical injuries. #LeadersArentBullies

"Trump makes NCAA men’s wrestling championships his latest sports-focused trip" - AP News "We are wired for connection. But the key is that, in any given moment of it, it has to be real." - Brené Brown #leadersarentbullies #BeTransparent #metoo #HealthyWorkplaces #decency #SpeakUp   #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

   "Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." - Charles Kettering "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #SpeakUp #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it." - Kamal Haasan "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." -Leonardo da Vinci "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." - Marcus Aurelius #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #SpeakUp

“Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.” ― Peter A. Levine “A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.” – Hannah Gadsby #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #metoo #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #decency An early Swedish study among 64 victims of bullying at work attending a rehabilitation program concluded that 65% of the patients suffered from PTSD.

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." - Thomas Jefferson #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #MeToo #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #decency

"We need a (leader) who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services and procedures a great city needs, who has positive relationships with, and understands the needs of, working families." - Carolyn Maloney #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact  

"If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit." - Shelley Morrison "The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice." - John Rawls #leadersarentbullies #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #decency

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ― John Green “The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not” ― Elyn R. Saks #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact A study of male industrial workers found a significant negative association between exposure to bullying at work and measurements of psychological health. Exposure to workplace bullying shows victims report a 23% adverse variance in psychological health.

"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not." - John Lubbock #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller "Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact  

"When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business." - Manal al-Sharif #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"Nothing is worth your health, like poisoning yourself with stress, anxiety, and fear." - Steve Maraboli "If you get tired, learn to rest - not to quit." - Banksy "Burnout is a risk. I take short breaks; put my phone down, get into nature, and ignore the news." - Katty Kay #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #decency #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #mentalhealth Bullying victims report increased psychological distress: anxiety, depression, negative emotions, and overt anger. In the workplace, high levels of burnout and emotional exhaustion are common, as well.

"Bullying is a cowardly act. It's easy to bully someone when they aren't looking or when they can't fight back." - Ronda Rousey "The most talented and decent employees are most often workplace bullying targets. They trigger a bully’s great fear of being exposed as an incompetent fraud. Bullying managers are willing to hurt their organizational goals by demeaning and discarding its best talent” (Paknis, 2018) #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #decency

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." - Plato "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan "A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity." - Dalai Lama #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #SpeakUp #decency #metoo #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact  

"Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations." - Adam McKay #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"I believe rejection is a blessing because it's the universe's way of telling you that there's something better out there." - Michelle Phan “You learn nothing about people by snubbing them and crushing their pride. Ask them what it is they can do in this world.” - Hilary Mantel #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #decency  It hurts when people we work with, who are supposed to be our teammates, shun us. It challenges our assumptions about our relationships and human decency.

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs "I think America's strength is in innovation." - Lonnie Johnson #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct

"Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!" - William Booth "We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading." - Robert Greene #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #SpeakUp #metoo #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

“The right to think is the foundation of freedom, and speech must be safeguarded from government intervention because speech is the genesis of thought.”— Anthony M. Kennedy “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”—Harry Truman #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #SpeakUp #BeTransparent #metoo #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." - Thomas Merton #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent   #SpeakUp #MentalHealth #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct   #psychologicalsafetyatworkact Leaders who achieve bottom line results balance with respectful, compliant, and #transparent enterprises are rare. If you are so blessed, propose using healthy results, processes, and relationships as competencies used to select and assess all managers, to build a thriving culture.

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams "We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs." - Bill Clinton “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” – James Madison "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Edmund Burke #leadersarentbullies

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs "The biggest part of leadership is that you lead by example with your performance first and foremost." - Jude Bellingham "A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency." - Peter Fenn #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"We are the United States of Amnesia,  encouraged by a media with no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us." - Gore Vidal "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson #maliciousprosecution #TortiousInterference #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #BeTransparent #SpeakUp   #psychologicalsafetyatworkact