Some people will spend their entire lives looking for a purpose. While I think it’s important to have a purpose, I believe it’s more important to have a Life Philosophy: a conscious way you choose to live. Even if you don’t know your purpose, having a life philosophy can create a foundation to which your purpose …
Month: July 2009
Do you have a Servant’s Heart or a Slave’s Mentality?
In Corporate America servant leadership has become popular form of leadership. I believe it’s only true leadership form. I see people struggle with the term servant, especially those of us in the black community. Servant and slave are terms that don’t sit well with us. Although we will sit in church on Sundays and hear …
“Prepping” Authority
Authority is often misunderstood by leaders and team members. Endless discussions about roles are a symptom of this misunderstanding. Authority has relativistic characteristics as well as some absolutes. How I’ve viewed authority is by considering the “preps”, that is prepositions, in front of authority. As a leader you can simultaneously be “in authority,” “under authority” and …
Why is the Sky Blue?
I remember staring at the blue sky that morning, thinking it was so beautiful and clear. I wondered why the sky seem bluer the further way I looked from the sun. Our class was out there looking at the sky and I wondered with all the childlike wonderment of a typical 5 year old, “why …