Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Another important leadership theory is Servant Leadership popularized by Robert Greenleaf in the seventies. It was controversial at a time when title, position and status were revered because it suggested that leaders should focus on serving the needs of their followers, rather than pursuing their own self-interests.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. I think the greatest challenge facing the adoption of Servant Leadership as your personal leadership focus is that one has to take the “ego” out of their positional authority and put others first. Why do you advocate Servant Leadership?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. I was young and had a lot at stake in my position – I was the major breadwinner in my family and felt the weight of the responsibility to provide for my young children. How have you been responsible?

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Today, the ability to be seen as a participative leader can still be important and those in leadership positions that don’t take the thoughts and feelings of their subordinates into account are rarely regarded as truly great leaders. Gary Yukl in 1971, with the leadership style being called delagative rather than participative.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Greenleaf's, "Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness," provides a blueprint for securing and maintaining proper, respectable leadership. Keith argues the practicality and ethical aspects of servant leadership in this introductory book, "The Case for Servant Leadership."

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. For every decision, there are often positive results and less-than-positive results. I found your suggestion of reflecting on prior events or decisions that had a positive outcome very beneficial.

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