While it should be obvious from my first post on this subject that I regard the helping relationship and the skills appropriate to it as the dominant theme of leadership, there are subdominant themes that support it and, in my opinion, are just as important.  So in this second part of the blog, let me…

Let me start with some of the assumptions that will inform what I have to say about this rather daunting topic.  First of all, I am not—am not!—setting myself up as some sort of “expert.”  Rather, these reflections—I use the term quite deliberately—are based on my own impressions of the leaders I have “followed” and…

The majority of my posts thus far have been about teaching and learning and the crucial engagement between teacher and student.  Hopefully, then, I have been clear that I believe the purpose of education—especially a liberal arts education—is not merely the “filling” of minds, but the “formation” of minds.  So as important, as crucial, as…