Leadership Reflections

This is the last in a series about ‘loving teamship’ that started with loving your teammates and then loving your team.  It is also the flip side of the post Loving Leadership that talked about leaders loving their staff members.  It may seem strange to talk about loving the team leader, especially because that love [...]

 Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer was, as far as I can tell from a quick Internet search, a rather dreary philosopher who wrote that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled, so he was all about negating those desires, which leads [...]

This is part two of a three part series on ‘loving teamship’ that started with loving your teammates. Relations with the team Imagine a football team where a player’s goal is to show some scouts his outstanding moves.  His vision is what he will be able to do as a free agent with the income [...]

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law. Matthew 7:2-29 My phone rang at 5:40 Tuesday night and a voice said, “John, my name is [first name only] and I am on staff [...]

Friday February 25th was my last day of work. Until June 9th, that is. I am on sabbatical! And I’m surprised to see benefits from the sabbatical before even missing my first workday.  I think about CCCC a lot, even on vacation.  (Webmail is a terrible thing for vacations and Saturday mornings!)  However, over the [...]