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Leadership

What Does It Look Like for a Leader to Love?

Steve, my boss, opened four days of meetings with this question yesterday. When was the last time you heard of a president or CEO breaking the ice like this? The fifteen of us in the room invested an hour discussing acts of loving leadership. These included attentiveness, listening, taking action on what we know is […]

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Leadership

Manhood on Sept 11

The other reason we remember September 11 around our home is that it is Travis’ birthday. Today marks 18 years for him. Here’s what I wrote on his card: Travis, Congratulations! Today marks a rite of passage. In our society you legally become a man. I am proud as your earthly father to have a […]

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Leadership Movements

Two Common Movement-Killers

I hate to admit this. I have made this mistake three different times. Each time it happened after I had been assigned to a new campus. The first time the mistake could have been expected. The second and third times, well, that was my own fault. What was my mistake? At the beginning of a […]