A Very Different Kind of Blog, But It’s Still About Leadership: Wake Up, America!
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death reveals two things once more, that Americans know are true: America’s…
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Defund the police? How about ‘defunding America’ through radical, thorough-going, far-reaching change?
On a recent television news show former Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey analyzed the video from…
Memorial Day 2020: The War Yet To Be Won
In her excellent and justifiably best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age…
Christian Dereliction of Responsibility?
by Michael P. Friday Christians can be often heard to say, “Never mind, God is…
On Parallel Thinking
by Michael P. Friday I can do parallel thinking. After all, is not life lived in…
Beyond Superficial Thinking About Refugees
For some days now, I have been watching, piece by piece, an Amazon Original documentary entitled Human…
Of Privilege and Marginalization: Two Social Woes
Several years ago, I sat in an adult Sunday school class in an American church. Around…
WHEN RELIGION DESTROYS LEADERSHIP
Evan Osnos, a New Yorker staff writer, opined in a recent TV appearance that a “religion…
9/11 AT 17: HOW SHALL WE HEAL?
I had been an immigrant merely 5 months that fateful Tuesday morning when 19 wicked men…
LEADERSHIP FROM BELOW
You know it’s a different kind of silly season when I, a person ordained to the…
LEADERSHIP: NOT ONE-SIDED, NOT ONE-ISSUE, NOT WIN-LOSE
Let’s go where the wisest of leaders fear to tread: the number of homicides and suicides…
WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS: BETTER LEADERS
Few people would disagree that there exists, in a few key strata of life, a crisis…
LEADERSHIP and EMPOWERMENT
Even though empowerment is both desirable and necessary for effective leadership and organizational health, it is…
THE ABUSE OF POWER
Barbara Kellerman observes that “there’s something odd about the idea that somehow leadership can be distinguished from…
LEADERSHIP: YOU COULD LEARN A LOT FROM A SPIDER
Spiders are amazing creatures, though they may also be annoying. Five minutes after I passed through…