How does one keep from growing old inside? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship...

    There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.— Fuchan Yean         What does the future of leadership look like for the nonprofit world? Off the top of my head the perfect recipe  includes innovation and new...

                It is  the experience of touching  the pain of others that is the key to change.....compassion is a sign of transformation~Jim Wallis Touching the pain of others.....such powerful words. How often do we allow the...

                We hear a lot about servant leadership, but what does a servant focused organization look and feel like? And more importantly, why does it matter?   Servant focused organizations embrace transformation -They...

    Love is a choice-not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.~Carter Heyward     Feeding the hungry is love. Helping a friend in need is love. Creating a safe space...

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. ~Larry Bossidy Bring it. Hire the best.  Hire the brightest.  Hire the hungriest. Then let them do it. Let them do the...

  I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson           One of the benefits of the bad economy has been our need to look for meaning, value and happiness not based on income.  Cash donations...

                          I am sure many of you have seen this. It is the Holstee Company Manifesto. It has been a source of inspiration for me for a couple of years now.  I wanted to share it with you...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ~Aldo Leopold         As I was meditating this morning my mind began to wander. That is nothing new- that...