KINDLE Strand: Leadership of Leaders KINDLE servant leaders are maturing as they implement effective leadership development approaches in their ministry and equip other servant leaders to the same. ___________________________________________ I read this blog post by Tim Stevens called “Managing Subordinates”. I had to get past the title because there’s something about the word “subordinates” that [...]

  Zanmi (sounds like “zombie” without the “b”) is my six month old Havanese puppy. “Zanmi” means “friend” in Creole–and it is the perfect name for him. I am learning a lot about leadership from trying to be a good master to Zanmi. Today’s leadership lesson from Zanmi is “All Leaders Are Not Alike” When [...]

KINDLE Strand: Leadership of Leaders KINDLE Practice: 5. Encourage One Another Celebrate and recognize accomplishments that help achieve the vision and mission. I totally get that part of leading leaders is encouraging them: watching for the things they do that demonstrate excellence or clearly contribute to mission and telling them how great they are. This [...]

The blog will often have posts that are related to the KINDLE Strands and Practices. These are four strands and 20 practices (five practices in each strand) that help develop Servant Leader Skills. To see a current copy, click here: SPO-Version02. But don’t get too attached—they’re under revision! We’ll share the new set as soon [...]

Here we go! Welcome to  Number One post for the KINDLE Servant Leaders Blog. This blog has been a dream of KINDLE’s for a while now. We thought our amazing 10th Anniversary Year would be a good time to kick it off.  Can’t tell you how honored I am to write it, although right now [...]

One of KINDLE’s enduring values is leadership legacy. One of the ways that KINDLE seeks to live out this value is in recognizing individuals whose life reflects servant leadership. Sometimes the individual served others on a public stage and is quite well know in church circles. Other times, the persons ministry happened in those unseen [...]