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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Highlights from #EAST2014 - 10 Lessons from Dr. Grace Rozycki

From the Oriens Keynote Address:

1. Walk the Walk and Earn Your Stripes 
    
2. Crystallize your Goals:  Prioritize so that First Things Come First
   
3. Value Emotional Intelligence

4. Develop Leadership Skills and Allow them to Evolve over Time
    - Importance of Mentoring: "True Leaders Don't Create More Followers, they Create more Leaders"

5. Learn to Work as a Team

6. Operate from a High Moral Compass

7. Learn to Manage Stress

8. Be Service Oriented
    - "We make a Living by What we Get, but we make a Life by What we Give" (Winston Churchill)

9. Be Prepared to Fail, and More Importantly, Learn from It.

10. Fleeting Success Comes Easy, Longevitiy is another Story Altogether.

We should always be a Doctor First, and a Surgeon second.

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