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"The first step to leadership is servanthood."
~ John Maxwell
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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I
found that the more you care about your team, the more your team
will care about you and about their
customers. |
Jack Ma |
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Leadership is about creating powerful human currents
moving enthusiastically in a
right
direction.
Why Servant Leadership?
To
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lead
effectively, you must
lead by example and serve. The
principle behind effective leadership is based on the interplay of
responsibility, respect, and care.
The key to servant leadership is the
commitment to
doing your best in the service of other people, both inside and outside the
organization.
Affiliative Leadership
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Matsushita's 10 Corporate Management Lessons
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Follow Your Employees
"Soliciting the service of
others is the same as serving them."
~
Proverb
You cannot lead people unless they are willing
to follow you. People will trust you if you help them achieve more,
unleash their
creativity and bring out their own sense of worth. So be willing to
follow your employees periodically to win their trust and understand their
needs and capabilities better. By doing so you'll learn what to do in order
to
inspire them
to follow you and bring out their best.
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Employee
Empowerment
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The Rewards
of
Leading with Authority
"The qualities of a
servant leader are also
the attributes of love, which is defined as one's behavior towards
others. When servant leadership becomes your ethos in
life, people would be lining un to join your cause."
~ James Hunter, the
author of The Servant
Leading with authority enables you to have a
personal mission statement: to serve the people you lead, to serve their
needs, to give praise and recognition, to show kindness, and to be honest,
among other things.
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Major Leadership
Styles
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The Law of Harvest
You reap what you saw.
Leading yourself
is the first step toward serving others. For authority or
influence to flourish, the right
environment must be provided and nurturing behavior must be present. Bear in
mind however that influence is not something that grows overnight, it grows
in time.
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If you want to lead the people, you must
learn how to follow them. |
Lao Tzu |
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The Tao
of Leading by Serving |
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The best warriors win without seeking to conquer.
The best
warriors
do not use violence. The best tacticians try to avoid confrontation.
The best leaders
become servants of their people.
All streams flow to the sea because it is
lower than they are.
Humility gives it its power.
If you want to govern the people, you must
place yourself below them.
If you want to lead the people, you must
learn how to follow them.
~
Lao Tzu
"The person who boasts about being a leader
isn't one. The true leader
doesn't boast about it. He has no ego investment in being a leader;
he just is. He knows that his power comes not from authority but from
his people, so he uses his position to assure that they have the
resources and support they need to do their work. Thus people give him
power, because they know he will use it to benefit everyone and not just
himself. This is true power."
~ James A. Autry &
Stephen Mitchell, the Author of
Real Power: Business Lessons from Tao Te Ching |
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In order to be a leader you had to first learn how to serve others. |
Jesus |
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Jesus
about Leadership
Jesus said that in order to be a leader you had to first learn how to
serve others. He said, "You know that in this world kings are tyrants, and
officials lord it over the people beneath them. But among you it should be
quite different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your
servant, and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all. For even I,
the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others, and to give
my life as a ransom for many.”
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The first responsibility of
a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the
leader is a servant. |
Max
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"I don’t know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I do know.
The only ones among you who will be really
happy are those who will have sought and found how to
serve."
~ Albert
Schweitzer
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