Not too long ago I finished When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert. If you aren’t familiar – it’s an exploration of…
Tag: Empowerment
Green Zone Leadership: Breaking Rules to Serve
This is a much delayed post in the series I’ve entitled “Green Zone Leadership,” which is a compilation of reflections and insights from reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City – the…
Cross-Cultural Detachment: When Majority Folks Don’t Engage
As a white advocate in an ethnic minority context, I spend a disproportionate amount of my time trying to wrap my mind around why it’s so hard to mobilize majority culture leaders…
Capacity Building Decisions and Empowerment
Have you ever seen an example of a group of people or an organization succeeding in something that everyone else is struggling with? People usually want to find out “the secret” so…
Seeing Clearly Seeing Whole
A few weeks ago we were on vacation with my family. One of the most memorable moments for me was watching my son (4) start to learn to swim a bit. But…
Green Zone Leadership: Rose Colored Self-Congratulations
The past few days I’ve posted on themes related to the movie The Green Zone from a couple years back and the book that inspired that movie, Imperial Life in the Emerald…
Green Zone Leadership: Throwing Resources
The past few days I’ve posted on themes related to the movie The Green Zone from a couple years back and the book that inspired that movie, Imperial Life in the Emerald…
Green Zone Leadership: Agendas
The past few days I’ve posted on themes related to the movie The Green Zone from a couple years back and the book that inspired that movie, Imperial Life in the Emerald…
Servanthood and Gifting (Guest Post)
I’m excited to introduce another servant leadership guest post. This is from TJ Poon, an Epic Movement staff member based in Austin, Texas. TJ has guest blogged here before (here) and is…