The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.