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Serving the Mission, Not Just the Contract: Servant Leadership in Government Procurement Reform
(My apologies up front for the length of this post. I’ve been sitting on this for a minute.) He has shown you, O man, what is good; And...
Mark Klages
Aug 25, 20256 min read


Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice: A Lesson from 1 Samuel 15
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than...
Mark Klages
Aug 18, 20253 min read


Title: When Leaders Rush the Process: What Saul’s Mistake Teaches Us About Servant Leadership
Servant Leader: I was reading in 1 Samuel this morning about Saul's unlawful sacrifice...and it hit me...patience isn't always virtuous...
Mark Klages
Aug 14, 20252 min read


Forecasting with Faith: Servant Leadership and Sales & Revenue Planning
As we conclude our Annual Operating Plan (AOP) journey, we arrive at a component that often feels purely analytical: Sales and Revenue...
Mark Klages
Aug 12, 20252 min read


A Shepherd’s Legacy: Trusting the Long Road
Taking a slight detour from our AOP conversation. What if your story began generations before you were born? David’s story didn’t start...
Mark Klages
Jul 31, 20252 min read


Seeing the Field with Wisdom: Servant Leadership and Market & Competitive Analysis
In the world of strategic planning, Market and Competitive Analysis is often treated as a purely tactical exercise: gathering data,...
Mark Klages
Jul 30, 20253 min read


Looking Back to Lead Forward: Servant Leadership and Historical Performance in the AOP
As we near the final steps of our Annual Operating Plan (AOP) journey, we turn to a practice that is both practical and profoundly...
Mark Klages
Jul 28, 20252 min read


Equipping the Called: Servant Leadership and Resource Planning in the AOP
How about one more this week, Servant Leaders? As we continue our journey through the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), we’ve explored how...
Mark Klages
Jul 23, 20253 min read


Metrics That Matter: Servant Leadership and the Spiritual Discipline of Measuring Impact
As we continue our journey through the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), we’ve explored how Servant Leadership transforms risk planning,...
Mark Klages
Jul 22, 20254 min read


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 21, 20253 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 18, 20253 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 15, 20254 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 14, 20251 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 7, 20252 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 29, 20252 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 21, 20251 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 1, 20251 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 17, 20255 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 16, 20255 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 2, 20251 min read
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