With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.