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My Dad The Servant Leader

Next Level Blog

He served as a Navy lieutenant and dentist on the USS Everglades where he was captain of the ship’s pistol team. I was disappointed by his answer and didn’t understand his motivations then but I do now. My dad was a servant leader. Caring for others in whatever ways he could offer was his primary motivation.

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Servant Leaders Outperform Because They Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

Here’s an example of a servant leader that brings the force of connection to life. Servant leaders such as Admiral Clark outperform other leaders because they move people to “surrender the me for the we” and it is nearly always the case that we accomplish more when we are pulling together than when we are drifting apart.

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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. Maxwell writes: " When you become a leader, you give up your right to think of yourself first.

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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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Leader, Know Yourself

Lead Change Blog

How do leaders build credibility with team members? I believe credibility happens when leaders act on their primary responsibility to serve team members. Servant leadership is not easy to do in today’s dog-eat-dog, me-first business environment. Ask for their feedback regularly.

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Simple Truths of Leadership Turn Common Sense into Common Practice

Leading with Trust

What if I told you the key to being a successful leader was to make common sense common practice, and to do that, you need to remember and follow some important simple truths? The most persistent barrier to being a servant leader is a heart motivated by self-interest. Servant leadership is the vehicle to building trust.

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The Bridge to Growth

Lead Change Blog

Jude is the founder and CEO of JDR Partners and author of The Bridge to Growth: How Servant Leaders Achieve Better Results and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever. There is a third ingredient to business success, one that many companies undervalue: servant leadership. Too often these people are being over-managed and under-led.