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The Servant Leader vs. the Human Ego

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Ken Blanchard: Most people who consider themselves servant leaders spend the majority of their time thinking about how to help their people get what they need to achieve their goals and live according to the organizational vision. They are seen as “do-nothing” managers. Everyone slips up now and then.

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How To Be A Servant Leader

Eric Jacobson

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Covey Plus, you'll read keen advice from celebrated sports coaches, company CEO's, pastors and retired military leaders.

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Are You a Closeted Servant Leader?

Let's Grow Leaders

This week, I had the honor of co-hosting the Online Servant Leadership Summit with Becky Robinson. We had some great guests including Ken Blanchard, author of the new One Minute Manager and Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes. A vital part of being a servant leader is advocating for what your team needs.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Servant Leader

Lead Change Blog

Author information Mark Miller Mark Miller is a business leader, best-selling author and communicator. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. Mark began writing about a decade ago.

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

What’s driving leaders to create this culture of fear? According to a recent survey , 33 percent of managers lead with fear. As the study’s authors point out, if you were to ask a manager if they lead with fear, most will say no. I’ve observed many leaders who manage people through fear. Well, it’s fear.

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Focus on the Journey, Not the Destination

Lead Change Blog

The article, titled, “Beam Me Up Scotty,” talks about me being too focused on my own career — causing me to miss an opportunity to learn from my boss, who was a very quiet, humble servant leader. I was in my late 20s at the time and thought I was a good leader. I spent most of my career as a power leader.

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Do You Trust Your Team Enough to Go on Vacation?

Leading with Trust

Do you have low trust in your team’s ability to manage without you? Simple truth #44 in my new book with Ken Blanchard, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , says… The most important part of leadership is what happens when you’re not there. I hope you’ll join me.