As Executive Director of Got Your 6, this is how I've applied values based leadership to every aspect of the organization. This drives how decisions are made, how we react to adversity and opportunity and ultimately how we build a culture based on values that align with our own.

1. Values-Based Leadership
Bill Rausch
Executive Director, GotYour 6

2. 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
BeliefsCulture
Experiences
Education
Family
Organization
Memberships
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3. 1Living a life driven by purpose is more meaningful and
rewarding than meandering through life without
direction
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4. GotYour 6 Mission:
GotYour 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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5. GotYour 6Values:
Integrity
Positivity
Commitment
Courage
Trust
GotYour 6 is its people and the values by which we live
GotYour 6 Programs and People are the foundation of
GY6s success
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6. 2Organizations must do well to do good and must do
good to do well
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7. Purpose andValues 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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8. 3
Everyone wants to succeed and success is contagious
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9. 4
Putting people in the right jobs is one of the
most important jobs of a leader
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10. 5
Character is the most important trait of a leader
Put the needs of the organization above your own
Take personal responsibility for organization results
“Choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”
From West Point Cadet Prayer 10

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Diverse groups of people are more innovative than
homogeneous groups
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12. “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 Rule
Treat others as you would want to be treated
Treat others as they want to be treated
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13. 7
Ineffective strategies, systems and culture are bigger
barriers to achievement than the talents of people
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14. High Performance Organization
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15. 8
There will be some people in the organization
that will not make it on the journey
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16. 9
Organizations must renew themselves
Recruiting and training are top priorities differentiating
those who succeed from those who don’t
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17. 10The true test of a leader is the performance of the
organization when he or she is absent or after
he or she departs
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