Great leadership advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Society and Solitude” (excerpted from Chapter 11: Success)…
Don’t hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and bemoan… Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
To awake in man and to raise the sense of worth, to educate his feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for bad action, that is the only aim.
‘Tis cheap and easy to destroy… Yes, this is easy; but to help the young soul, add energy, inspire hope and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not easy , that is the work of divine men.
(How cool is Google for making it possible to give you this? Real cool.)
Now go lead someone.~>
