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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Think Long Term

Skip Prichard

My grandfather didn’t use the term “delayed gratification,” but that’s what he was talking about, and it’s a critical part of servant leadership. Servant leaders think long-term. Just like investing, a great leader is thinking about the long-term future of the team and of the organization. Tammi Spayde .

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Do You Have What it Takes to be a Mature Leader?

Lead Change Blog

Does this influence the effectiveness and maturity of your leadership? Maturity is underrated, i.e. we need more adulting. In looking for definitions of the word mature I am attracted to these: Based on slow careful consideration [= thoughtfulness]. That is a responsibility of an adult, and a leader. Can you relate?

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Servant Leadership in Action

Leading Blog

Raj Sisodia is a leader in the Conscious Capitalism movement and relates servant leadership to the acronym, SELFLESS : Strength, Enthusiasm, Love, Flexibility, Long-Term Orientation, Emotional Intelligence, Systems intelligence, and Spiritual Intelligence. He explains, “The servant leader is a whole person, not a fragmented being.

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The 4 Letter Word Leaders Need to Use More Often at Work

Leading with Trust

My mother would frequently remind me that the language we use reflects our level of intelligence and maturity, so instead of using curse words, we should find better ways to express ourselves. So, you won’t be surprised that I’m not advocating leaders more frequently use the four-letter words that begin with F, S, and D.

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What LEGACY are you leaving?

Lead Change Blog

Even for relatively-mature business people or organisational leads, it is not something they consider. Are you a servant leader ? As a leader, do you give your staff the tools and resources necessary to make confident decisions in the workplace without tight supervision? As a leader, do you set realistic goals?

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The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

As opposed to simply communicating priorities and monitoring progress, servant leaders needed to invest in and focus upon the employees on their teams who were doing the work. Given those givens, it is difficult to imagine a true servant leader that was somehow not a practicing Situational Leader.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Two Things All Good Leaders Do by @RonEdmondson. 10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Servant Leader by Mark Miller. Maturing as a leader includes shedding your mask of certainty by @recoveringleadr. 5 Topics Your Board Should Discuss. Busy vs. Productive : 5 Ways to Focus on the Right Things via @katytynan.

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