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Kelvin A. Redd is the Director of the Center for Servant Leadership at the Pastoral Institute in Columbus, Georgia.
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2022 Fifteenth Avenue
Columbus, GA 31901
706-649-6380
706-649-6381 fax
sl@pilink.org
www.pilink.org
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Howard Behar, Former President of
Starbucks, to Give Keynote at Pre-Conference Luncheon in Columbus
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Howard Behar is the former president of Starbucks North America and
Starbucks International. He joined Starbucks in 1989 as vice president of sales
and operations, and grew the retail business from 28 stores to more than 400 by
the time he was named president of Starbucks Coffee International in 1995.
Under Behar's leadership, Starbucks opened its first location in Tokyo in 1996, and then introduced the Starbucks brand
across Asia and the United
Kingdom. He retired as president of
Starbucks North America in January 2003, but continues to serve in an advisory
capacity and coach leaders at all levels. He has been a member of the Board of
Directors since 1996. He serves on several other boards, including Anna's
Linens, The Gap Inc., Jewish Family Service of Seattle, and the Washington
State Budget and Policy
Center. Behar is the
author of It's Not about the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at
Starbucks. He lives in Seattle
with his wife, Lynn.
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The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith |
My good friend and CEO of the Greenleaf
Center for Servant
Leadership, Kent Keith, is the
author of the Paradoxical Commandments. I find them inspirational, so I
wanted to share them with our readers. My hope is that you will find them
inspirational, too.
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends
and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank
anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the
smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few
underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed
overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if
you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get
kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the
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20th Greenleaf Annual International Conference |
The Greenleaf Center's Annual International Conference provides the opportunity for servant-leaders and those interested in Servant Leadership to meet each other, learn about servant leadership resources, and inspiration by outstanding speakers and workshop leaders. Over the years, speakers have included James Autry, Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard, Peter Block, Max DePree, Stephen Covey, Joseph Jaworski, Laurie Beth Jones, Richard J. Leider, Ann McGee-Cooper, M. Scott Peck, Peter M. Senge, Margaret Wheatley, Lea Williams, and many other outstanding experts on leadership. There are two or three dozen workshops to choose from during a number of concurrent breakout sessions, as well as a one-day pre-conference with several in-depth workshops.
The 20th Annual International Conference will be held in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, June 16-18, 2010. The pre-conference on June 16 will consist of a day in Columbus, Georgia, a servant-leader city. Buses will leave from the Sheraton Atlanta in the morning and return to the hotel from Columbus that evening. During the morning, attendees will visit organizations in Columbus that are applying servant leadership principles.
 The regular conference will be held over the next two days, June 17-18, at the Sheraton Atlanta. There will be five featured speakers and more than 20 concurrent workshops. The conference will conclude on Friday night, June 18, with a Celebration Dinner.
For information about some of the featured speakers, click here.
Registration is now available for the Greenleaf Center's 20th Annual International Conference! To download a form to complete, please click here. To register online, please click here. |
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Conference Volunteers Needed |
 The Greenleaf Center is looking for volunteers to serve in a variety of ways at our 20th Annual International Conference to be held in Columbus and Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-18, 2010. Some of the duties include help with registration, bookstore set-up, and distribution of conference handouts and materials for workshop sessions. Guidance will be provided for all volunteer areas. This volunteer opportunity is available for each day of the conference. If you are interested in volunteering for one or all of the days of the conference, we would be glad to have you. Please click here to download the registration form and submit it via fax to 317.669.8055, or email it to Dolores Jones at djones@greenleaf.org. If you have any questions please contact Dolores at the email provided. |
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Schedule a Workshop or Speech
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To schedule your servant leadership workshop or
keynote speech, call 706-649-6380 ext. 1303 or email Kelvin Redd at kredd@pilink.org.
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