10 Principles of Servant-Leadership
Here is an interesting list of 10 principles of servant-leadership.
‘After carefully considering Greenleaf’s original writings, Larry Spears, CEO of the Greenleaf Center has identified a set of 10 characteristics that he views as being critical to the development of servant-leaders. These 10 are by no means exhaustive. However, they serve to communicate the power and promise that this concept offers:‘
1. Listening
2. Empathy
3. Healing
4. Awareness
5. Persuasion
6. Conceptualization
7. Foresight
8. Stewardship
9. Commitment to the growth of People
10. Building Community
Read the whole article here
November 14th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Interesting I though one of the keys would be to actually serve others!!!
the rev
November 15th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
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November 16th, 2005 at 7:55 am
Phil
am not sure what is being suggested by such a listing.Are these characteristics of “servant leaders” specifically related only to christians(missionsl/emerging church etc)?
Dumbledorf notes that Harry Potter has the qualities of “Parseltongue…..resourcefulnes……detremination…..a certain disregard for rules”- all good qualities of “servant leaders”!
Good union organisers would certainly value the kind of principles set out by Spears.
The question then,is, are then any specifically “christian”
principles of “servant leader”?
November 16th, 2005 at 9:07 am
Nothing really being suggested by posting the list. The blog that posted is a management (not church) one that I read and I just linked it up for future reference.
I do like Rev’s comment that “serving” needs to be in there somewhere. Although it is true to say that many of those elements in actions are serving people.
Are there specifically “christian” principles of servant leadership? Mmmm - need to think about that one. I am tempted to say yes and no. No, in the sense that the same qualities stand and need to be present but yes, in the sense that the motivation for serving is different. Perhaps! Or as Karl Kung argues - Christianity is the ultimate fulfilment of humanism - so, perhaps there is no difference.
November 16th, 2005 at 8:31 pm
Perhaps there’s coffee somewhere in there!