I just returned from a conference in which I attended a session on servant leadership.  Surprisingly, the primary topic shifted toward how a servant leader owes it to their followers to allow them to learn from failure.  The discussion used the example of how some of our current workforce had been done a disservice by […]

Consulting specialist Elaine Biech stated, “Often it is what you learn after you know it all that counts!” How often do we come across someone who is a self-professed “expert” in their field, convinced that they have all the knowledge they or you might ever need to do the job?  Unfortunately, when someone embraces this […]

I just returned from the Thrive Leadership Conference, which is one of the finest conferences of its kind in the country.  In one of the sessions, Andrew McCourt was speaking about how to increase our leadership capacity.  He began with a simple formula:  Be Yourself.  He began with a quote from Oscar Wilde which stated, […]

In my last blog, I spoke of authenticity in the lessons learned from Bowar’s article about Don Quixote.  The primary point is that we must own our own self and not allow others to define who we are.  We have the freedom to become the person we envision, so we must seize the opportunity to […]

Over the past decade, one of the buzzwords in business and ministry is authenticity.  It has become a litmus test of sorts as to whether one group or another will follow someone based on their perception of how authentic one is.  While it is critical that we all must be viewed as a leader of […]