{My blogging will be intermittent for a few days — we will have family with us for the holidays.  After yesterday’s ghastly event in Connecticut, I will be glad to see my grown sons and our granddaughters…}

So, here’s a quote for the day from Servant Leadership:  A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert G. Greenleaf:

The servant leader is servant first.  “It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.”  The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. 

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?