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A Powerful Example of Servant Leadership
The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said that “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” Last month, New York City and our nation lost such a leader, Richard Murphy, whose legacy should serve as an example of [...]
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Reading Through the Presidents
This piece was originally published by Huffington Post Happy Presidents’ Day. While I usually write about bottom-up leadership, I also have long been fascinated by the presidents. Several years ago, on a conference call, I heard an older colleague talk about how he had been reading all the presidents’ authoritative biographies in chronological order. At [...]
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‘Everyone Leads’ Excerpt in World Financial Review
The original version of this excerpt from “Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up,” was published by the London magazine, World Financial Review By Paul Schmitz, Public Allies CEO Everyone leads. When I began using this phrase in presentations about Public Allies and chose it as the title of my book, it provoked many questions [...]
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MLK’s Leadership Lesson for Us All
This article by Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz originally published by Huffington Post on Jan. 21, 2013 This weekend, millions of Americans served their communities and made commitments to volunteer to make a difference in their communities and for the causes they care about over the next year as part of the Inauguration’s National Day of [...]
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The Rewards of Diversity and Inclusion
(Originally published on Huffington Post) In the course of giving more than 100 speeches this year for my book, Everyone Leads, I met countless people who reinforced my belief about the incredible leadership talent often left untapped in our communities. Two who most inspired me were Monte Allen and Bob Littman from Cincinnati, Ohio. Their story [...]
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