Values-Based Leadership

Bill RauschExecutive Director, Got Your 6

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It is important for each individual, each organization, to get in touch with their education, experiences, culture, family

heritage and organization memberships to develop their own set of beliefs

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1 Living a life driven by purpose is more

meaningful and rewarding than meandering through life without direction

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Got Your 6 Mission:

Got Your 6 is a national campaign dedicated to empowering veterans to lead a resurgence of

community across America

Life of Purpose: Improving the lives of others

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Got Your 6 Values:

IntegrityPositivity

CommitmentCourage

Trust

Got Your 6 is its people and the values by which we live

Got Your 6 Programs and People are the foundation of GY6s success

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2 Organizations must do well to do good and

must do good to do well

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Purpose and Values Must Be Pervasive

To make people’s lives better…

6 Certified Veterans Civic Health Index Veteran Empowerment Collaboratory

Macy’s American Icons #Iam Campaign & PSAStorytellers & Vets Week

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3 Everyone wants to succeed and success is

contagious

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4 Putting people in the right jobs is one of the

most important jobs of a leader

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5 Character is the most important trait of a

leader

Put the needs of the organization above your ownTake personal responsibility for organization results

“Choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”From West Point Cadet Prayer

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6 Diverse groups of people are more innovative

than homogeneous groups

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“Change almost always comes as a surprise because things don’t happen in straight lines.

Connections are made by accident.”-James Burke, Science Historian

and Author/Producer of Connections

Diversity Sparks Ideas & Innovation

The Golden RuleTreat others as you would want to be treated

The Platinum RuleTreat others as they want to be treated

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7 Ineffective strategies, systems and culture are

bigger barriers to achievement than the talents of people

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High Performance Organization

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8 There will be some people in the organization

that will not make it on the journey

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9 Organizations must renew themselves

Recruiting and training are top priorities differentiating those who succeed from those

who don’t

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10 The true test of a leader is the performance of the organization when he or she is absent or

after he or she departs