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Tuesday Morning Message 11.12.24 Our 2024 Hall of Fame Celebration!
Yesterday was Veteran’s Day, so this message is being posted Tuesday Morning.
“Thank you again for the honor of being inducted in the CSU Law Hall of Fame…. It was clearly a "Top Shelf" event! The food was amazing and the program was great. I loved getting my award from Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart. This was a well-planned and well-attended event.” - Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams ‘90
Tuesday Morning Message 9.26.23 The Power of Listening.
Last week, I noted that when I welcomed our first year class of law students, I shared “The 10 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School.” Here’s another “thing I wish I had known.”
When I started law school, I wish I had known the power of listening.
We need leaders who recognize the value of asking rather than telling, of listening rather than jumping to conclusions. As Steven Covey notes in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
Saturday Morning Message 9.11.21 Strong at the Broken Places
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
I’ve never written a Saturday Morning Message, and I doubt I will again, but this morning is different.
20 years ago this morning our world changed in an instant. It was one of the saddest, darkest, most horrific days in history.