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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Develop Other Leaders

Skip Prichard

Studies have proven that leadership development efforts help you: Retain emerging leaders. Increase change management success. The only real leadership is servant leadership. The panel goes on to provide some great, actionable tips on how to help “lead leaders” within your team. A servant leader develops other leaders.

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders are Humble

Skip Prichard

On this week’s “Aim Higher” podcast, my panel and I discuss the last of the nine traits of a servant leader: humility. You can’t get to any kind of servant leadership mentality without a foundation of humility. But if you, as a leader, simply don’t do those bad things, that doesn’t make you a servant leader.

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Aim Higher: Why Servant Leaders Create a Culture of Trust

Skip Prichard

The second quality of servant leadership that I want to address with you is the importance of building a culture of trust. Simply put, servant leaders build a culture of trust. Because without trust—for the leader, for coworkers, for the organization at large—everyone will be focused on survival rather than success.

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Help People with Life Issues

Skip Prichard

” -Jennifer Collins. Otherwise, you are only a manager with a title, not a servant leader leading with others in mind. Otherwise, you are only a manager with a title, not a servant leader leading with others in mind. Caring about others is a crucial quality of servant leadership. People First.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Jim Collins and Jerry I.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So they no, they actually terminated him.