If you know me or have read this blog for a while you probably know that I love reading stuff by Edwin Friedman. I’ve been an advocate of A Failure of Nerve…
Tag: leadership
Responsibility and Bureaucracy
This is somewhat of a follow-up post to my post a few days ago which raised the question from Robert Greenleaf about the need to be both good and bad in some…
Try First-Guessing
As a Cub fan I’ve watched a lot of games on WGN over the years. One of the great Cubs announcers for a time was Steve Stone (who now does TV on…
When Giving Goes Bad
Here’s a challenging thought from Robert Greenleaf in Servant Leadership… “In this regard I see no middle ground between arrogance and humility. One may not safely give unless one is open and…
Leadership Bermuda Triangles
Do you have situations and dynamics you encounter over the course of working with people or leading where you just get lost? When the topic of getting “lost” comes up most people…
The Disability of Competence
Here’s another great bit of prophetic wisdom by Robert Greenleaf written a few decades ago, but that continues to have relevance for all of us today. “Ordinarily we think of competence as…
Human and Liberating Leadership
Today’s there’s a lot of focus on practical leadership and organizational leadership, but less attention is given to the ethics of leadership and the formation of leaders. As I address leadership issues…
Your Leadership Curriculum
In my reading of Robert Pazmino’s Foundational Issues in Christian EducationI came across a helpful section related to teaching curricula (awkward plural there, but that is the right word). There are three…
Teaching to Change Lives (Review)
I just finished Teaching to Change Lives by Howard Hendricks. This book has been around for about 25-30 years so it’s not new, but it reads new. I’ve heard Dr. Howard Hendricks…