Servant Leadership

Ken BlanChard

“The only way I have seen organizations get great results and great human satisfaction is when people understand the power of servant leadership.”

Being of Service

Here the question comes how can you serve and lead at the same time?

Leadership is not about what self-serving leaders have done or doing in a destructive way in every sector of society around the world, because they think leadership is all about them. And servant leadership is its really all about the people you’re serving, and what you are trying to accomplish.

Servant leadership starts from the inside, it starts in your heart, who are you as a human being? And the question you always ask yourself is, are you here to serve or be served?

How to manage servant leadership?

To understand this we must discuss two aspects of servant leadership. One is “Vision” and another is “Direction”. Being a servant leader we need to know what business we are in, what are we trying to accomplish, where are we going, which is your picture of the future. If we do a great job, what are we going to accomplish? What are the values which’ll drive your behavior? And then you set goals and objectives. This is the traditional hierarchy. But the philosophically the servant leadership turn that pyramid upside down because now you work for your people who eventually work for their people who eventually work for their customer, and symbolically what you’re really moving is when the traditional hierarchy is there is you’re responsible and you want the people to be responsive to what you’ve agreed upon. When you turn the pyramid upside down, you’re making them responsible, which is able to respond, and your job is to be responsive to them. Praise their progress. Redirect them if they are off. Cheer them on. Do all kinds of other things. But your job is to help them win.

Alfred Nobel lesson

Alfred Nobel, his brother died in Sweden and he went to read the obituary of his brother and they got he and his brother mixed up. And he got to read his own obituary, you know, and he was involved in making dynamite. They talked about destruction and all those kinds of things, and he thought, oh my God, that was awful. And he decided how could he rewrites his obituary, so he would be remembered differently. The other people, around they said what’s the opposite of destruction? They said peace so he redesigned his life, so he would be remembered for peace. And that’s what your obituary is, how do you want to be remembered? And then what are your values? Your values can be a spiritual peace, integrity, love and joy. And then read your values and defined those. So that you know who you want to be in the world, and then at the end of the day what do you do with that?

If you don’t blow your own horn….

Somebody else will use it as a spittoon. And so you got to do that, but you also want to be honest about what you want to continue to work on. And so, if you have an intention and a habit of entering your day slowly and then ending it with some assessment on how well we did, you are really going to do.

And if you want to be a good leader you got to have an examined life and you got to set goals and visions in the morning, and then evaluate how well you do it. And you know you can do it.

Thank you Ken BlanChard to your inspirational leadership preaching.

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