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The Great Commandment for Women: Love and Care for Yourself as You Love and Care for Others by Carol P. Christ

February 3, 2014 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Healing Leadership, HOPEFUL LEADERSHIP, Sustainable Leadership, Visionary Leadership, Women and Leadership · Leave a comment

A rabbi known as Jesus of Nazareth taught that you should  “love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself.”  Charles Hartshorne, philosopher of relationship and a twentieth century advocate of the “two great commandments,” added that it should be understood that this means that God wants you to love yourself too. I quote…

The Serving Leader: Leadership Practices that Connect Managers with their Teams

November 15, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Creative Followership, Sustainable Leadership · 2 Comments

Here’s an interesting take on servant leadership — more accurately, servant management. According to Roy Osing, leadership columnist at the Globe and Mail, Managing by Wandering Around (MBWA) needs to be replaced by Leadership by Serving Around (LBSA). Cute acronyms — important point. In the struggle to make managers into leaders, not just people and […]

Don’t Feed The Monkeys! 3 Ways To Help People Solve Their Own Problems

November 6, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Creative Followership, Sustainable Leadership · Leave a comment

This is a great metaphor for satisfying our own need to solve problems by making other people happy instead of providing good leadership. And there are SO many monkeys aren’t there — not just from the people we manage/lead, but from the outside world, all those little problems that would solve themselves through normal social […]

The Interrupters: Inspiring Leadership in the Streets

May 12, 2013 · by · in Art and Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Barack Obama, Healing Leadership, HOPEFUL LEADERSHIP, Sustainable Leadership · 4 Comments

The spirit of leadership shows best when individuals put themselves on the line for the good of community. I write about this heartfelt, courageous form of leadership as aloha leadership, a committed, holistic practice of leadership that works with core values of integrity, self-knowledge, and respect for relationships. Certainly, the Interrupters are a living example […]

The “E” in Leadership: Engage Fully

March 26, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, aloha leadership, Dilbert, Laughing about Leadership, Leadership Training, Sustainable Leadership · 3 Comments

None of us can get meaningful work done if we don’t connect. But burnout claims us all at a certain point, and sometimes engaging fully in any real conversation just feels too complicated. To followers, it might seem we do it on purpose… but the reality is that no leader in his right mind wants […]

The “L” in Leadership: LISTEN

March 21, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, HOPEFUL LEADERSHIP, Sustainable Leadership · 5 Comments

If there’s one thing that great leaders always do, it’s listen. I know, you’re saying, “Of course!” It’s a commonplace of management and leadership. But it’s one of those skills that makes the difference between success and failure. Visionary leaders who can’t get their message into action often lack this fundamental skill. They think the […]

Leadership “Intervention:” teachings of popular culture

March 13, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Art and Leadership, Creative Followership, Healing Leadership, Popular Culture, Sustainable Leadership · Leave a comment

It’s a familiar story: boy/girl meets drug-of-choice, boy/girl falls in love, boy/girl’s family intervenes, boy/girl goes to rehab and starts over. In the TV series, “Intervention,” this plot happens over and over again. Most of the addicts go to rehab, and many stay sober for awhile, maybe longer. The stark white postscript on the screen […]

Metaphors and Leadership: How Do We Make Sense of This Crisis?

March 6, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Barack Obama, Healing Leadership · 3 Comments

We live through story; so it’s important to pay attention to the metaphors we use about our leaders. In the Washington Post yesterday, David Ignatius used a powerful metaphor to describe the sequestration crisis. It tells a difficult about leadership, about the crisis, and about what we need to do. Co-dependent Leadership and the House […]

Learning from the Land: Integrative Leadership

February 9, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Barack Obama, Creative Followership, Sustainable Leadership · 2 Comments

Great leadership is about relationships — not just with people, but with the land itself. I’ve just returned from a visit to Hawaii, one of the few places I’ve visited where the land itself is a strong leader.  Even most non-native Hawaiians recognize the power of the land, and talk about “malama aina” — respecting […]

Mapping the Spirit of Leadership

January 3, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Malala Yousafzai · 5 Comments

This blog explores the spirit of leadership — that is, what is the heart and soul of great leadership? How do we make sense of leadership failures and successes, expectations and disappointments? All of us, leaders and followers, are caught in a web of myths, challenges, visionary goals and contradictions that we must face with […]

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