You know it’s a different kind of silly season when I, a person ordained to the Christian ministry (otherwise called a “man of the cloth”), am about to rise to the defense of a former porn star. But it is a defense more akin to Jesus’s defense of a woman brought to him, caught in…
Let’s go where the wisest of leaders fear to tread: the number of homicides and suicides that occur in America today, and their relationship to guns. And let us go there in the context of leadership, rather than in politics. First, two fundamentals about responsible leadership: Responsible leadership is informed leadership; and informed leadership is…
Few people would disagree that there exists, in a few key strata of life, a crisis of leadership. The securing of peace in various parts of the world is not only elusive, but in some significant areas, it appears to have taken several steps backward. True and honorable leadership is never about serving self. Responsible…
Even though empowerment is both desirable and necessary for effective leadership and organizational health, it is often not employed by some leaders. The barriers to empowerment must therefore be overcome and removed. Roger Gill asserts that “barriers to empowerment include bureaucracy, risk aversion, the need for control over others, fear of a loss of control,…
Barbara Kellerman observes that “there’s something odd about the idea that somehow leadership can be distinguished from coercion, as if leadership and power were unrelated.”[1] I take issue with her actual statement, but not with its implication. Despite the position some may take, that coercion can sometimes be necessary, (as with a college football coach wanting a…
Spiders are amazing creatures, though they may also be annoying. Five minutes after I passed through the door to my garage, I needed to return into the house for something. As I was passing through the door, a cobweb caught my face. Within five minutes, an (industrious and invisible) spider had navigated my personal space!…
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