Topics:<\/b> Leadership; Relationships; Servanthood; Team; Trust<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Matthew 20:20\u201328; John 13:34\u201335<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve led from a place of servant leadership, and I\u2019ve led from a place of top-down leadership\u2014and there\u2019s no question which kind of leadership is more effective.<\/p>\n
My classmates at Harvard Business School used to call me the Prussian general because for many years that was my approach to leadership. Then I was hit by a series of personal and professional setbacks. My wife died. A mail-order venture that I had started went bankrupt. Rather than launch another business, I accepted a friend\u2019s offer to head an aquarium project in Tampa.<\/p>\n
I spent the next six years in a job that gave me no power, no money, and no knowledge. That situation forced me to draw on a deeper part of myself. We ended up with a team of people who were so high-performing that they could almost walk through walls. Why, I wondered, was I suddenly able to lead a team that was so much more resilient and creative than any team that I had run before?<\/p>\n
The answer: somewhere, amid all of my trials, I had begun to trust my colleagues as much as I trusted myself. And that is the essence of servant leadership.<\/p>\n
\u2014Jim Stuart, cofounder of the Leadership Circle, Fast Company<\/i> (September 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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