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Stewarding the Storehouse: Servant Leadership and Financial Planning in the AOP
As we continue our journey through the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), we’ve explored the importance of Risk Assessment and the power of ...
Mark Klages
Jul 213 min read


Vision with Virtue: Servant Leadership and the Power of Strategic Objectives
In our last reflection, we explored the often-overlooked discipline of Risk Assessment and Contingency Planning —a vital act of...
Mark Klages
Jul 183 min read


Planning with Purpose: A Servant Leader’s Guide to the Annual Operating Plan
As summer stretches across the Appalachian hills and the calendar turns toward the third quarter, businesses across the region and beyond...
Mark Klages
Jul 154 min read


Shiny!
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. How many times have we heard that saying (or one like it), or even used it ourselves? As...
Mark Klages
Jul 141 min read


Revolutionary Leadership: 249 Years as a God-Fearing Nation
249 years ago , a group of ordinary people made an extraordinary decision. They risked everything—status, security, even their lives—to...
Mark Klages
Jul 72 min read


The Contractor Shall...
Greetings, Servant Leader, and happy Sunday! How many proposal professionals do we have? Raise your hand. Project or Program Managers?...
Mark Klages
Jun 292 min read


Kingdom Living - A Devotional
Servant Leaders - earlier this month I mentioned that I was writing a devotional to capture some of my experience in GovCon and align it...
Mark Klages
Jun 211 min read


Service
If you've read my blogs, you know that I talk a lot about servant leadership. If you ran the numbers, you would probably find north of...
Mark Klages
May 11 min read


Fighting Toxicity - Part 2
Last time I wrote about the responsibility of the servant leader in preventing or correcting a toxic work environment. In that blog, I...
Mark Klages
Apr 175 min read


Fighting Workplace Toxicity?
Every day that I open up social media, I see another article about identifying and escaping a toxic work environment. These articles...
Mark Klages
Apr 165 min read


Cut like a diamond...
Back in 2019, Paper Kings released a single titled "Fire on Up!" It was popular with teens and teams at the time. Here is the chorus....
Mark Klages
Apr 21 min read


Trusting the Change
Let me start by saying that a loving leader knows what we need, and gives it to us when we need it, not before and not after. I was...
Mark Klages
Mar 233 min read


Silver Lining
If you are older than six, you are probably aware of the turmoil surrounding President Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government...
Mark Klages
Mar 33 min read


Knowledge or Belief?
What is the difference between knowledge and belief? Webster’s Dictionary defines each primarily as: Knowledge: the fact or condition of...
Mark Klages
Feb 213 min read


Part 2 – Servant Leadership: Creating Better Future Leaders
Introduction In part two, we investigate two topics that are integral to true servant leadership. The first, growing through...
Mark Klages
Feb 48 min read


Part 1 - Servant Leadership: Creating Better Future Leaders
Introduction In his seminal essay “The Servant as Leader,” Robert K. Greenleaf (1970) posited that the role of a servant leader is to...
Mark Klages
Feb 16 min read


Common Sense Solutions
Recently I've been challenged to explain how life has tested my faith. I prefer to answer with how God has reinforced my faith. But let...
Mark Klages
Jan 311 min read


The Singularity - Ahhhhh!!!!
Good Monday afternoon, Servant Leader. I hope you are enjoying your combination MLK holiday and inauguration day. Today's entry is a...
Mark Klages
Jan 207 min read


Be Deliberate
Andrew Ripp sings a song called simply, "Roses." The chorus of this song is as haunting as it is powerful. He must've known about the...
Mark Klages
Jan 132 min read


Foundations
Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The...
Mark Klages
Jan 121 min read
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