If you think about your current team – whether it’s a formal and ongoing team or whether it’s more informal and temporary, then sooner or later you’ll have to face the reality…
Author: Brian
Old School Crew
I recently came across one of the pics below as one of my old high school friends posted one of them on facebook and then I had come across another one of…
Thoughts on The Myth of the Shiksa (Review)
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…
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…
Thoughts on Practicing Servant Leadership (Review)
I just finished Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery, and Forgiveness edited by Larry C. Spears and Michele Lawrence, which is a compilation of essays and interviews from a variety of…
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…
Brief Thoughts on Servant Leadership (Review)
I was able to finish over the weekend Robert Greenleaf’s classic Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. I had read bits and pieces over the years,…