Servant Leadership
I have come across this article "Practicing Servant Leadership by Larry Spears" quite amusing more holistic approach towards leadership.
>>Quoted from "Practicing Servant Leadership by Larry Spears"
The servant-leader is one who is a servant first. In "The Servant as Leader" Greenleaf wrote, "It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant--first to make sure that other people's highest-priority needs are being served. The best test is: Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?"
>>Quoted from "Practicing Servant Leadership by Larry Spears"
The servant-leader is one who is a servant first. In "The Servant as Leader" Greenleaf wrote, "It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant--first to make sure that other people's highest-priority needs are being served. The best test is: Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?"
At its core, servant-leadership is a long-term, transformational approach to life and work--in essence, a way of being--that has the potential for creating positive change throughout our society."
Read this intresting article here http://www.l2li.org/leaderbooks/l2l/fall2004/spears.html
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