Monthly Archives: May 2020

NOTE: Given the importance of this challenge I will be devoting this post and my next post to exploring it. Greenleaf writes: A third ambiguity is the need for a healthy tension between belief and criticism as part of the … Continue reading →

I am the message. –Gandhi Greenleaf writes: A second ambiguity is the disability that goes with competence.  …A critical disability that goes with expanding competence is the inability (or unwillingness) to examine the assumptions by which one operates.  …Very few … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: The trustees’ concern is complicated by the condition that life within the institution is not wholly rational (no more than anywhere else).  …it presents three kinds of challenges which can bring virtual paralysis to the administration if there … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Lord Acton’s maxim: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  …Trustees have the obligation to oversee the use of power in order to check its corrupting influence on those to whom it is entrusted, and to … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Trustees, administrators, staff, and various outside constituencies all have power. Any one of them may persuade – by articulation or example or both. Having knowledge gives them power. Being persuasive gives them power. Setting a conspicuous example gives … Continue reading →