Matt Paknis Leadership Development

"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker." — Frederick Douglass “A fair trial is where the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces proper courtroom procedures – a trial where every assumption can be challenged.”— Harry Browne  “Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty.”— John Adams #freedom #speech #FairTrial #rights #liberty #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #trial #psycholigicalsafetyatworkact #truth

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln "Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most." - Lincoln "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." - Lincoln #wisdom #discipline #outcomes #innovate #accountability #consequence #normalize #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces  #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #change #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #dignity When no one is held accountable for abusive behaviors, this nonresponse is the same as condoning and normalizing bullying in the workplace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good." Ronald Reagan: "A President's greatest responsibility is to protect all our people from enemies, foreign and domestic." Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." #power #responsibility #defend #protect #good #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #character #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #servitude

Elie Wiesel: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Renée Fishman: "When we are silent in the face of abuse, we implicitly tell the bully that their behavior is acceptable. ... Silence in the face of abuse sends the message that... people ‘deserve’ to be mistreated." Albert Einstein: "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." #SpeakOut #fightthepower #liberty #freedom #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #Respect #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #report

"Where the law is subject to corruption, justice becomes a weapon in the hands of the oppressors." – Unknow "When the judge is a party to the suit, and the lawyers are his accomplices, the trial is a tragedy of the darkest kind." – Legal philosophy "A court of law is a place where truth and innocence are often the first casualties of a corrupt alliance." – Unknown "The trial itself is a conspiracy... where the judgment is passed long before the evidence is heard." – Franz Kafka #justice #light #truth #innocence #evidence #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #law #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #equality #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #liberty

"Each moment is a choice. If [God] removed options, you lose freedom. You would not become the person striving to find the better way." - Gilbert Teodoro "You are free to make whatever Choice you want, but not free from the Consequences of the Choice." - Howard G. Hendricks #choice #good #evil #freedom #consequences #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #liberty #psycholigicalsafetyatworkact #justice Some workers are willing, able, and allowed to bully. Their workplace offers opportunity to harm. Only a very small percentage of survivors, like pedophiles, choose to repeat the abuse cycle, yet all perpetraors were abused. It is a learned, deviant, behavior.

"Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." — Martin Niemöller "No one deserves to be bullied." — Barack Obama "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Martin Luther King, Jr. "Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right." — Theodore Roosevelt #SpeakOut #justice #rights #libery #happiness #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #life #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #freedom #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #protection

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."— Henry David Thoreau "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." — Albert Einstein "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." — William Shakespeare "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." — Buddha #honesty #truth #integrity #justice #happiness #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #law #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #liberty #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #freedom

Benito Mussolini: "They got the judges in their back pocket. And ... corporate power." Upton Sinclair: "The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie." Elvis Presley: "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away." #justice #power #truth #integrity #honesty #leadersarebullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #rights #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #liberty

"Workplace culture reflects the leaders' priorities. Toxic leadership equals toxic culture." — Robin Sharma "In a toxic culture, fear replaces motivation and blame replaces accountability." — Lolly Daskal "Great leaders fix toxic cultures. They empower, involve, listen, appreciate, challenge, support, mentor." — Unknown #values #priorities #empower #listen #coach #LeadersArentBullies #HealthyWorkplaces  #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #mentor #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #support  An existing, toxic, working culture where abusive behaviors are normalized as “the way we’ve always done it,” fosters ruthless and inhumane behavior and bullying.

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." — Reinhold Niebuhr "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." - Martin Luther King Jr. #justice #democracy #freedom #unity #liberty #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #equality #psycholigicalsafetyatworkact #fightthepower

"Change happens when the fear of remaining the same becomes greater than the fear of making a change." – Anonymous "And just like a toxic relative, toxic colleagues are best kept at a distance." – Suzy Welch,  "Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive." – Anonymous #change #focus #structure #orientation #peace #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #support  #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #validate

"The U.S. justice system holds back when big-name corporations are involved because of the possible impacts on our economy... power and money basically overrule the laws that every other person must abide by." - Aleida Montanez "You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules." - Bob Marley "We have the best government money can buy." - Mark Twain #justice #power #money #laws #equality #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #truth #psychologicalsafetyatworkact

"A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness." - Nathaniel Branden "I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power." — Patricia Cornwell #courage #authenticity #assertiveness #power #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #equality #psycholigicalsafetyatworkact #Respect  Bully-victim relationship signs and symptoms can be used to then determine the causes and discover what can be done to curb the behavior. The most thorough process to stop bullying of any kind is to identify its root cause and then eliminate or reduce this cause.

"If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?" - Maya Angelou "An army is a chain, and it is only as strong as its weakest link." - George S. Patton #strength #health #team #community #society  #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #sacrifice #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #support

"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”  – Richard Branson,  “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace”. – Doug Conant “Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.” - Tony Hsieh #EMPLOYEES #clients #care #happy #culture #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #win  #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #service #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #Productivity

"A lawsuit can be a weapon." — Bari Weiss "Certain Federal judges are controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench. They are breaking every code of conduct." - Orrin Hatch "A compromised court does not merely fail to deliver justice; it teaches society that truth itself is negotiable. Injustice from the bench spreads faster than any crime on the street, for it is committed under the illusion of authority." - Sheldon Whitehouse  #justice #honor #conduct #truth #trust #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #confidence #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #authority

"This is the second best thing I've read! Since it's the Sabbath, relax and read the Good Book and SLAB to see how Toray Plastics bore false witness, using many digital devices, to bring Paknis great harm." - Moses "Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm." – Martyn Wild #Sabbath #truth #protect #police #justice #SLAB #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #liberty #psycholigicalsafetyatworkact #nevergiveup  With so many avenues to bully, policing bullies and protecting targets is more difficult than ever. It takes place in every possible interactive engagement and over digital devices such as cell phones, computers, and tablets.

Happy Independence Day!   #liberty #freedom #unity #life #happiness  Peace,  Matt

"Trauma is what happens inside you; it is a psychic injury, lodged in our nervous system, mind, and body, lasting long past the originating incident(s), triggerable at any moment." - Dr. Bessel van der Kolk:  "Trauma does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally, heard only by the one held captive." - Danielle Bernock #mentalhealth #wellbeing #validate #counseling #leadersarentbullies #HealthyWorkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #rational #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #takecontrol

Here's Toray execs, their corrupt counsel, and their complicit, shopped, Justices destroying my book and violating my rights to free speech and to a fair trial.   "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -George Orwell "Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson #freespeach #FairTrial #Liberty #justice #truth #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #rights #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #Freedom

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." — Dale Carnegie  "True power comes not from control or domination but from the ability to inspire, uplift, and empower those around you." - E.L.C. #inspire #understand #empathize #uplift #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #empower #psychologicalsafetyatworkact #forgive  Bullying is often perceived as “just conflict” or a mere “difference in personality styles.” This may be the case. Bullying includes power and control dynamics with repeated, intentional, excessive and reckless criticism, violence, abuse, assault, discrimination, and isolation.