The Power of Servant Leadership

The other day I received the company's news via e-mail, you know, that list of news about your employer and other fellow workers... usually very boring... anyway... in this one I read about a guy and his achievements... blah, blah, blah... but he mentioned he is reading the book that is the reason and title of this post: The Power of Servant Leadership.

Instantly the suggestive title got me into Amazon and I was able to read a little bit about it... here some lines from it I think are worth to share:

"... If a better society is to be built, one more just and one more caring and providing opportunity for people to grow, the most effective and economical way while supportive of the social order, is to raise the performance as servant of as many institutions as possible by new voluntary regenerative forces initiated within them by committed individuals: servants."

"... I have come to believe that a serious lack of vision is a malady of epidemic proportions among the whole gamut of institutions that I know quite intimately: churches, schools, businesses, philanthropies. And that needed vision is not likely to be supplied by the administrative leadership of those places."

"... If there is to be a constant infusion of vision that all viable institutions need, whatever their missions, the most likely source of those visions is their trustees who are involved enough to know, yet detached enough from managerial concern, that their imaginations are relatively unimpaired."

I didn't know there is a lot of information about the concept of Servant Leadership, you might like it as well as this book, unless you are an administrator ;-)

Thanks for reading.