A Servant-Leader’s Approach To Homelessness
The story lines are unavoidable. Communities facing housing shortages, increasing rents and lack of affordable housing report the growing presence of people experiencing homelessness. It is no [...]
It’s About the Who
To my surprise people ask me to guest lecture on the philosophy of servant leadership and the audiences that I speak to are always receptive. Personally, the last thing I would want to do is [...]
A Novice’s Journey: Greenleaf and Love
On a day when love is held up as that sacred bond that forges one to another, let’s examine the meaning of the word according to Robert Greenleaf. “Love is an undefinable term, and its [...]
When it comes to feedback, Servant-Leaders receive first
One of the critical services of the leader is to move people from fear of feedback to anticipation of coaching, Most of us have experienced “constructive” criticism that came across as negative, [...]
A Novice’s Journey: Driving Left
Our family recently had a wonderful opportunity to travel around England. During that memorable vacation, we rented a car to see the beautiful villages that compose the Cotswalds region. The [...]
The Servant and the Lion
In his epic 12th century tale Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, the French poet Chrétien de Troyes puts forth a poetic narrative of a knight that befriends a lion after saving the lion from a [...]
A Novice’s Journey: A Gift for Commencement
Do you have a young person in your life graduating from High School, College or accepting an advanced degree this or next month? I do. We often search for that perfect gift that conveys our love [...]
A Servant-Leader’s Approach to the Gentrification Dilemma
It’s hard to deny the presence of trendy coffee shops, new boutique businesses, and soaring housing costs as signs of gentrification for pockets of urban cities historically kept for low income [...]