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| Whose got your back? |
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| Written by Ryan |
| Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:28 |
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Sign up for Ryan's informative Free e-newsletter on Leadership-Team-High Performance Hilary Swank was a teenager when her mom packed her up and headed to Hollywood. They had $75, a Mobil card and no place to live when they got there. They lived in the car for a few weeks and then slept on the floor of a friend’s house. Homeless, but never hopeless, Hilary began landing small parts. Her big break came in 1999 with the starring role for Boys Don’t Cry, which earned he and Oscar for best actress. “I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream,” she said at the Academy Awards. In 2005, with Million Dollar Baby, she became one of a few actresses ever to receive two Academy Awards. It wouldn’t have happened if not for the dream and the drive to pursue it. “I was lucky enough to have a mom who said I could be anything I wanted in life!” During the sessions that I conduct growing people in the area of Leadership I always remind Leaders that they have an amazing power in their possession that only activates when they give it away. Leaders have the opportunity to believe what people can be… instead of what people are. The power to believe in their people’s fu ture ability differentiates the great leaders from the rest. When you have someone's back they will turn into twice the person they are today. My Dad and I both love quotes... he gave me a plaque years ago with words from Emerson on it; "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiriation that comes to one when he discouvers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
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