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2011-Volume V
MAY
"We graduate
into the Leadership of Montgomery."
___________ from the Executive Director...
Leadership Montgomery
depends on your support in
the form of dues to maintain
our alumni program, to
enable us to offer classes to
new members and to help
foster community service
projects such as the school
clean up campaign, the
school supply drive, and our
current project of assisting at
risk high school students in
locating tuition grants to
attend technical schools and
colleges.
Some alumni adopt an
attitude of graduating from
the Leadership Montgomery
program once their class is
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over. However, we
encourage alumni to realize
that they are actually
graduating into the
leadership of Montgomery,
not out of it. The Leadership
Montgomery organization
then works within the
community to find ways to
engage the alumni in
meaningful projects that
enable alumni to continue to
give back in a leadership
capacity. This is the area in
which your dues assists us
most.
I encourage each of you to
support Leadership
Montgomery by volunteering
to serve in at least one area.
A volunteer form can be
found on the web page and
also accompanies the dues
invoice each year. I further
challenge each of you to
support the work Leadership
Montgomery is doing by
submitting your dues in one
of the categories listed. We
have tried to make it easy for
you by enabling you to
contribute on line via Visa,
Master Card or American
Express and by breaking
your dues into installments.
If there is anything else we
can do to improve the
program or further meet your
needs, we want to hear your
suggestions. This is your
program, and we are here to
serve you.
LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY &
THE COMMUNITY EDUCATION
FOUNDATION
INVITE YOU TO a SPECIAL FREE
SHOWING of the FILM
WAITING for
SUPERMAN!
SATURDAY, MAY 14th
FRAZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
WESLEY HALL
9:30 A.M. FILM
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Thank you for nominating
others into the program, and
thank you for all you do in
support of Leadership
Montgomery.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Carter,
Executive Director
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FOLLOWED by an OPTIONAL BELIEVE IT
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ABOUT
IMPROVING EDUCATION
Believe It is a Community Engagement process launched by the
Montgomery Education Foundation (MEF), a program of the Central
Alabama Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
What is Believe It?
Believe It is an ongoing process to connect community members
to demand higher standards and greater accountability from
public education to improve our entire community. Citizens will
host conversations throughout the community to:
Share ideas about the kind of community they want to live in.
For Your Information...
Announcements:
2011 Leadrship
Montgomery Alumni
Membership Dues
Support LM at either of three
levels:
Level I: $300
Challenging the Community
Level II: $150
Expanding the Community
Level lII: $100
Growing the Community
Choose to Pay in-full or in
two installments:
1st Installment due now
2nd Installment due in
October
We appreciate your
contributions in support of
Leadership Montgomery
programs.
Remember, we are a 501C3
non-profit corporation. Your
donations are tax
deductible.
Class XXVII
Consider the connection between quality education and the
quality of community life.
Focus on the kind of relationship they want between our schools
and community - not on individual complaints or demands.
Begin working together in a new way to determine the future of
our community and public schools.
The Education Foundation and the Believe It process are
independent of the Montgomery Public School System. School
system leaders and the school board are ready to receive the
outcome and report of this effort.
After the conversations, Believe It will:
Create a Community Agreement with the school system based on
the community's collective voice.
Serve as a mechanism for long-term accountability in reaching a
shared vision for our students as described in the Community
Agreement.
Work with a collaborative structure of partners supporting public
education.
Involve as many community citizens as possible.
Provide ongoing community engagement around improved
performance for all students.
Keep public education in the forefront of the community
conversation.
Why ?
We believe in our children and their right to a quality education.
We believe every citizen should have a voice in the long range
plans of our school system
We believe good things are happening in performance in some of
our schools, but not all of our schools.
We believe there are challenges that must be addressed.
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Graduation
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We believe that what happens in our schools affects EVERYONE
in the community.
We believe schools are owned by the public.
Please join us
for Leadership
Montgomery Class
XXVII Graduation
and the
Annual LM General
Meeting
Thursday, May 19, 2011
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Capital City Club
Terrace Ballroom
Tickets: $50 per person
For further information, contact:
[email protected]
The Montgomery Education Foundation
334-264-6223
334-262-2261
[email protected]
Lunch With Leaders
Jean Drummond,
Chairperson
Robin Barca
President
Leadership Montgomery
The LM MARKETING
COMMITTEE has begun
working on its Integrated
Marketing Plan. This initiative
proposes to unify the look and
concept of Leadership
Montgomery, Emerge, and the
Torchbearers.
We would like to know what
you think about our programs.
Send your quotes and notes to
Melody Jones at
[email protected]
The marketing committee could
use your suggestions.
We would love to hear from
you. Send newsletter
comments and suggested
content to:
The LM Alumni Development Committee proudly
presented Montgomery County Public Schools
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Cheryl Carter
Executive Director
Leadership Montgomery
334.262.2261
[email protected]
www.leadershipmontgomery.org
Cynthia Williams, Editor
[email protected]
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Superintendent Barbara Thompson as the Lunch with
Leaders speaker on Thursday, April 21, 2011, at the First
United Methodist Church in Cloverdale Park.
Superintendent Thompson not only gave a brief synopsis of
her perspective of recent events involving Montgomery
Public Schools, but she also gave eager guests an
exclusive preview of several proposals that she said she
intends to present to the Board of Education in the near
future. Mrs. Thompson spoke of her aspirations for a
language emersion program at McKee Elementary School,
a single-sex middle school to deter would-be male
dropouts, on-line textbooks, and having BTW and Lamp
share resources at the Sidney Lanier High School
facility. After a Q&A session moderated by George
Goodwyn of Class XVIII, Superintendent Thompson closed
by reminding guests that early education, especially Pre-K,
is the key to student retention and alleviating the dropout
rate among our students.
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Baptist Health
and the Institute for Patient Safety and
Medical Simulation sponsored
CLASS XXVII
Health and Human Services Day
ptist Health
Institute for Patient Safety & Medical Simulation
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Judge Jimmy Pool listens to a simulated heart beat in a life-like
mannequin at the simulation center during class day.
Class XXVII members witness another hands-on demonstration
conducted by teaching staff at the Baptist Institute for Patient
Safety and Medical Simulation.
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Class members could feel an actual heart beat in one of the
"patients"
TB Class III Leadership Retreat
Leadership Montgomery welcomed
its third class of Torchbearer Young
Professionals at their opening retreat
at the 4-H Center in Columbiana on
April 28-29th.
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LEADERSHIP Perils of Wisdom...
The Test of a Leader:
the "Nine Cs of Leadership
by Lee Iacocca
I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've
been a CEO. I understand a few things about
leadership at the top. I've figured out nine
points-not ten (I don't want people accusing
me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the
"Nine Cs of Leadership." They're not fancy or
complicated. Just clear, obvious qualities that
every true leader should have. So, here's my
C list:
A leader has to show CURIOSITY. He has to
listen to people outside of the "Yes, sir" crowd
in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously,
because the world is a big, complicated place.
Thomas Jefferson once said, "Were it left to
me to decide whether we should have a
government without newspapers, or
newspapers without a government, I should
not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter."
If a leader never steps outside his comfort
zone to hear different ideas, he grows stale. If
he doesn't put his beliefs to the test, how does
he know he's right? The inability to listen is a
form of arrogance. It means either you think
you already know it all, or you just don't care.
A leader has to be CREATIVE, go out on a
limb, be willing to try something different. You
know, think outside the box. Leadership is all
about managing change-whether you're
leading a company or leading a country.
Things change, and you get creative. You
adapt.
A leader has to COMMUNICATE. I'm not
talking about running off at the mouth or
spouting sound bites. I'm talking about facing
reality and telling the truth. Communication
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has to start with telling the truth, even when
it's painful.
A leader has to be a person of CHARACTER.
That means knowing the difference between
right and wrong and having the guts to do the
right thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you
want to test a man's character, give him
power."
A leader must have COURAGE. I'm talking
about [guts]. (That even goes for female
leaders.) Swagger isn't courage. Tough talk
isn't courage. Courage in the twenty-first
century doesn't mean posturing and bravado.
Courage is a commitment to sit down at the
negotiating table and talk. If you're a politician,
courage means taking a position even when
you know it will cost you votes.
To be a leader you've got to have
CONVICTION-a fire in your belly. You've got
to have passion. You've got to really want to
get something done. How do you measure fire
in the belly?
A leader should have CHARISMA. I'm not
talking about being flashy. Charisma is the
quality that makes people want to follow you.
It's the ability to inspire. People follow a leader
because they trust him. That's my definition of
charisma.
A leader has to be COMPETENT. That seems
obvious, doesn't it? You've got to know what
you're doing. More important than that, you've
got to surround yourself with people who
know what they're doing. A leader has to be a
problem solver.
You can't be a leader if you don't have
COMMON SENSE. I call this Charlie
Beacham's rule. When I was a young guy just
starting out in the car business, one of my first
jobs was as Ford's zone manager in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania. My boss was a guy
named Charlie Beacham, who was the East
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Coast regional manager. Charlie was a big
Southerner, with a warm drawl, a huge smile,
and a core of steel. Charlie used to tell me,
"Remember, Lee, the only thing you've got
going for you as a human being is your ability
to reason and your common sense. If you
don't know a dip of horseshit from a dip of
vanilla ice cream, you'll never make it."
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