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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
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
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
Originally posted on Leading with Trust:
In my early days as a manager I used to love to feed monkeys. “Monkeys” are the problems, issues, or challenges your employees bring you that somehow become your responsibility to manage and solve. Instead of the monkeys stopping by your office for a quick visit and going back…
The “E” in Leadership: Engage Fully
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 […]
