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A Small Group Wins a Big Victory

This Side Up! I write and teach about leadership. There are as many definitions of leadership as there are those who try to define it. But, if the essence of leadership is influencing a group of people to reach a shared goal, then Sarah Morris, the Director of This Side Up Family Center is a leader . She is what I would classify a servant leader because her leadership is clearly for the benefit of the families the Center serves, not herself or her family. How do I know this about Sarah and her small group of volunteers and partners?   Liberty Mutual, Dallas, hosted for a second year their Like My Community social responsibility project. Through the use of social media, local non-profits, who were nominated by the agents of Liberty Mutual, invited their supporters to "like" them on the company's facebook page .  Sarah and her dedicated band of supporters out "liked" all the other non-profits , and This Side Up Family Center walked awa