I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Abbe Boring for her service to the children of the Bartow County school system. She has a lot of things to be proud of as she closes this chapter of her professional career and begins a new one in her home of Texas.
I am by nature a very passionate advocate of the things that I believe to be right and will probably be that way until I die. I appreciate Dr. Boring’s commitment to education and public service even when we disagreed on the specifics of policy decisions from time to time.
Having worked for a board myself I understand the delicate balancing act that public sector and non-profit executives work under on a daily basis. In the end, Dr. Boring helped us all begin to understand how to get from Good to Great. I don’t think we have arrived yet but I am excited to see where the bus takes us.
Dr. Boring thanks for helping me see another side of leadership that I can apply in my personal, spiritual and professional life. I will continue to try and live up to my favorite leadership quote and thank you as you leave for stepping into the “Arena”.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
~ Teddy Roosevelt
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