There are 40 cabins (we call them ‘camps’) on the Lake in the Adirondacks where I spend my summers: nice people who all share a special affinity for this beautiful place. We have an association that helps manage our few common needs: like many neighborhoods, nominal dues are assessed and the leadership positions are voluntary. When we first moved here, one of the then volunteer leaders made it a practice to wave whenever a car passed on the small road that runs the length of one side of the Lake: a small courtesy he’d learned from others before him and which made a big impression on the rest of us. To this day it’s a small courtesy we all continue to follow. In all groups, teams or communities, it’s the little things that bind the people there together in ways that show they care. They help knit a fabric of communications, understanding, commitment, and dedication that underpin the loyalty people have to each other and the efforts they share. Practice the small acts of courtesy that can have a mighty impact on the loyalty of the people you work with today.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): Author, Mathematician, and Clergyman; author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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