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What an unassuming symbol! We know what it means but have we ever given it any thought? Our colloquial use of the word dash represents the richness that is created when we use a hyphen in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 “venturesome [...]