Robert Greenleaf’s Definition of Servant Leadership – Flashcards
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The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve first.
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Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.
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He or she is sharply different from the person who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions
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For such it will be a later choice to serve- after leadership is established.
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The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types.
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Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.
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The best test, and difficult to administer, is: do those served grow as persons?
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Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?
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And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society; will they benefit, or, at least, will they not be further deprived?
