My Commonplace Book

If we were to rate ourselves on effective partnerships in Africa, the scorecard would measure:

Sustainable Impact over Short-Term Impact
Extended Relationships over Short-term Relationships (You can’t partner until you’re friends.)
Corporate Success over Individual Success
The Smaller Leading over The Bigger Leading
Measured Outcomes over Anecdotal Measures
Indigenous Ownership, Perspective, Leadership over Non-indigenous Ownership, Perspective, Leadership

Pride can often be used to beat down the simpler vices . . . Many a man has overcome cowardice, or lust, or ill-temper by learning to think that they are beneath his dignity — that is, by Pride. The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you become chaste and brave [...]

I hate pride. I see it so often in my life. And if I don’t see it, God reminds me of it.
C.S. Lewis called Pride a “spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” It is a terrible thing, Lewis noted, that [...]