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Greenleaf wrote that “Leading entails risk or requires a venturesome spirit, or both.” What does that say to us if we don’t like to take risks or don’t have a “venturesome [...]

If you weren’t at the conference, imagine this. You’ve been working all week hosting 600 of your colleagues for a huge culture committee event. You committed back in June to come out to speak at [...]

I met John Beede via video conference a few months back as we started planning for the 25th Greenleaf Conference. Both his story and his passion convinced me he needed to open our session in [...]

Don Frick penned Robert Greenleaf’s biography. He often regales audiences with the stories of the man who started a movement almost 50 years ago. Don often marveled at the way “Bob” listened: [...]

Aristotle said, “Knowing Yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”. My friend, Isabel, says “Knowing Self + Faith = Wisdom.” Knowing self is also a cornerstone theme in Greenleaf’s writings [...]

Someone recently suggested to me that “Employee engagement has been written about and talked about so much that it’s really a tired topic.” I’ve heard this before, and in part I think it’s a [...]

During a recent workshop with an amazing group of dentists, I was struck by how similar our “leadership” challenges are. They are so busy serving their patients everyday that they search for the [...]