Turning Rejections Around

…You are also allowed to be the rejecter and say no when something is posed as a great opportunity but just doesn’t feel right.’- Sam Jay

‘If you care enough about your work, you will be able to get past rejections.’– Alysia Reiner

‘When one door closes, another one opens.’- Alysia Reiner

‘It’s powerful to share experiences of rejection. … By sharing your vulnerability and your hardships, you give other people permission to do so as well. Then collectively, we’re able to kind of grow stronger together.’- Polly Rodriquez

‘After a rejection, you have to stop your own destructive narration, the looping story in which you tell yourself what just happened.’– Rachel Platten

‘Volunteering is one of the best possible ways to overcome a failure. because all of a sudden you’re not focused on what you don’t have. You’are focused on all that you can give.’- Rachel Platten

‘Treat your inner artist like a kindergartener in art class. Be gentle rather than critical.’- Rachel Platten

‘When you are trying to make a change, acknowledge that whatever the pushback, there is often validity in other people’s concerns.’- Marilyn Carlson Nelson

‘You know what would be bizzare? If you never failed and you never got rejected.’– Sarah Koenig

‘When you get rejected, you feel like you’re the only one to whom this has happened- but that’s not true. Failure happens to everyone.’- Angela Duckworth

Authenticity is all about staying true to your values, not to one particular communication style.’

Jessica Bacal (2021). The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up At Work

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- Why Do Great Leaders Lead With Love?

Leading people is a lot like creating work family. There are joy and tears, fun and fears.’

Love matters. It matters because with all that we have learned with respect to phenomenal leadership approaches, models, and philosophies, we still fail.’

When we fail to recognize the human need and capacity to love, we fail as leaders.’

Love is the crucial component in our lives, and our very survival depends upon its presence.’

Leaders who love create environments of compassion and caring.’

When people in the workplace are bonded by love, they forged solid bonds with one another that keep them together.’

Love enhances the feeling of ‘us’ along with a sense of purpose.’

When love is present, when care for one another rules, and when there’s an abundance of empathy, organizations take on the very human qualities toward which we should all strive.’

Love knows no titles. And hanging our importance or stature on the title in front of our name serve no purpose other than to inflate our ego.’

‘We depend on one another.’

We need one another.’

Source:

Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone (2021). Leading with Love and Laughter: Letting Go and Getting Real at work