Monthly Archives: August 2020

Leadership is a serious meddling in other people’s lives. –Max De Pree Greenleaf writes: …awareness, opening wide the doors of perception so as to enable one to get more of what is available of sensory experience and other signals from … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: The failure (or refusal) of a leader to foresee may be viewed as an ethical failure; because a serious ethical compromise today is sometimes the result of a failure to make the effort at an earlier date to … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: …foresight is a better than average guess about ‘what’ is going to happen ‘when’ in the future.  It begins with a state of mind about ‘now’…  What we note in the present moment of clock time is merely … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: As a practical matter, on most important decisions there is an information gap… The art of leadership rests in part on the ability to bridge that gap by intuition, that is, a judgement from the unconscious process…  Intuition … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Acceptance of the person, though, requires a tolerance of imperfection.  Anybody can lead perfect people…  It is part of the enigma of human nature that the ‘typical’ person – immature, stumbling, inept, lazy – is capable of great … Continue reading →