I have witnessed, up close, the heart of leaders who want nothing but the best for their organizations and share everything they can as soon as they can. I have seen the opposite as well. Leaders who hoard information. Leaders who leverage intelligence and news for their own benefit, high on the "sexy" drugs of status, secrecy and self-importance. I confess, I've been (am?) one of these leaders too.
Whether you have experienced "real life" external bullies or not, we all have this tendency to be our own bully. The question you have to ask yourself is. How long are you going to take it, before you say you've had enough?
One of the most profound things I have learned in recent years is that the most effective leadership posture I can assume is to strive to be a relentless servant leader who spends his time building into other leaders. This may seem intuitive, but many of us drive so hard to achieve and make a …
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Having contrarians in your daily life, at your dinner table and in your community can be maddening at times...but can we and should we try to live without them?
patterns. As someone who is trying to grow closer to others and sprinkle as much salt and light into the world as possible before I go, I am humbled. Dunbar's number tells me a story.
During a hurricane, a baby lay trapped under a tree in an apartment complex. The baby was somehow, miraculously, left unharmed by that tree. However, this collage is not a collage about that baby necessarily, nor an apartment complex where we serve meals to the working poor and homeless on Saturday nights; one where that baby happened …
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When I was a young man, I used to get pretty annoyed when my mom told us we had to be dropped off at CCD (Catholic Catechism classes) at our local Catholic Church. Turns out, my mom was trying to give me a little bit of faith, but all I could think of was no …
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