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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Of course! The servant-leader is most assuredly human. Why take the time to write about it? When I ask groups to describe servant-leaders in their lives, they speak of leaders who could easily be [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
