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Rhonda, a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital, has been promoted to manager of the sixth-floor nuro ward..  The previous manager, Madeleine, began a new program that made the sixth floor a better place to work and was so successful that other people in the hospital and even other hospitals along the East Coast wanted to know about her program.  Madeleine left to become a consultant and now Rhonda had her position.  Rhonda questioned her ability to do as good a job and was worried that things had already begun to unravel under her leadership.  She sought the advise of a dear friend, Margo.  Margo took her to a sushi bar in New York where a woman she knew was the only female sushi chef and a very good one.  The chef, Ishy, and her sushi chef husband had built a very successful business.  Ishy had also helped Margo with the same problem at the bank where she worked that Rhonda was facing at the hospital.

The beginning of this book brings to my mind the new beginning of each school year when a new set of students come into our classrooms eager, most of them, to learn what they need to be successful in that grade.  What we teach them should excite them and leave them begging for more.  The energy we put into our jobs as teachers should motivate our students to put as much energy into the work they do.  We should take the time to meet their every need so that each one can be successful and crave for more of what we have to offer them.