Enhancing students' leadership potential, whether through organizational involvement, civic engagement, or work experience is an important part of life at Simpson College.  The links on the right describe several leadership development opportunities and efforts here at Simpson.  Please contact Rich Ramos, 515-961-1536, ramos@simpson.edu, with any questions about Simpson's leadership programs.

A Wish for Leaders

I sincerely wish you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, planning it, organizing it, and following it to completion and having it be magnificently successful.  I also hope you'll go through the same process and have something "bomb out."

I wish you could know how it feels "to run" with all your heart and lose - horribly.

I wish that you could achieve some great good for mankind, but have nobody know about it except you.

I wish you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing your life.

I hope you become frustrated and challenged enough to begin to push back the very barriers of your own personal limitations.

I hope you make a stupid, unethical mistake and get caught red-handed and are big enough to say those magic words "I was wrong."

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it is worth it all.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you a reason for living and purpose and direction in life.

I wish for you the worst kind of criticism for everything you do, because that makes you fight to achieve beyond what you normally would.

I wish for you the experience of leadership.

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Earl Reum