Monthly Archives: June 2021

Greenleaf continues with a question: …are you not mature enough to manage your own growth? Gentle Reader, this question continues to challenge and haunt me.  What does being ‘mature enough’ mean?  What does ‘manage your own growth’ mean?  Greenleaf defines … Continue reading →

Greenleaf continues, ‘I assume you are searching…for something you have not yet found… What is the nature of your search?  What is your personal strategy for the optimal use of the opportunity which [these] next years offer? Over and over … Continue reading →

On 19 April, 1967 in Athens, Ohio at Ohio University Greenleaf gave a talk to students nearing the end of their freshman year.  His title for his talk was ‘Opportunity in the Next Three Years.’  Although Greenleaf delivered his message … Continue reading →

This morning I have decided to quote Greenleaf at length.  I invite you, gentle reader, to take some time and reflect upon his words and then to make note of all that emerges from your reflection – some of what … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: I am indebted to Peter Senge for the idea of a ‘shared vision,’ for the importance of the individual, regardless of status, to claim the dream as one’s own.  A condition for such a shared dream to prevail … Continue reading →