Tag: Professional Growth
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Who Has to Mow Around Your Idea?

Yesterday, I wrote about the $2.50 evergreen trees I planted outside Joy Hall about 26 years ago. I wrote about discovering that they are still there and about how some of the small things we do as leaders can continue making a difference long after anyone remembers who did them. There is another part of…
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The $2.50 Trees

When creating the blog banner for yesterday’s post, I found a current photo of Joy Hall at Greenville University. I was looking at the building itself, trying to remember what it looked like when I was the Resident Director there in the late 1990s, when something along the side of the building caught my attention.…
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The Freshman Who Wasn’t

Many years ago, probably August of 1998 or 1999, I was sitting outside Joy Hall at Greenville College on the first day of school. It had been move-in weekend, which meant I was exhausted. I was the Resident Director of Joy Hall, and after helping welcome a building full of new students and their families,…

