Monthly Archives: January 2018

I saw the immensity of the task before me and I fled its summons. –Tolstoy Servant-Leadership is concerned with Problems, Paradoxes, Polarities and Dilemmas.  The distinctions are crucial and so are the ways we respond to each of them.  We … Continue reading →

The way to do is to be. –Lao Tzu Servant-Leadership is concerned with how we choose to nurture and how we choose to deplete our P.I.E.S.S.  These five dimensions combine to ‘make-up’ who I am and who I am choosing … Continue reading →

Responsible people build…they are moved by the heart. –Robert K. Greenleaf Consider, gentle reader, that servant-leadership is concerned with three dimensions of health rooted in trust.  I call these three dimensions: P.R.O.  The first and most crucial dimension is the … Continue reading →

We convince by our presence. –Walt Whitman Servant-Leadership is ‘Agent-Centered’ [think: Servant-first] and ‘Relationship-Centered’ [think: we are social-beings by nature and ‘organizations’ are simply individuals-relationships writ large].  Servant-Leadership is not ‘Act-Centered’ – it is ‘Act-Focused’.  Unlike many other theories of … Continue reading →

In his Preface to his essay, The Institution as Servant, Greenleaf writes:  …in the long perspective of history the late twentieth century will be seen as revolutionary because, in this period, large numbers of influential men and women have come … Continue reading →