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Measuring My Leadership

“The best test, and difficult to administer, is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?” —Robert Greenleaf, The Servant As Leader

In other words: When people think about you, do they say to themselves, “My life is better because of them”?

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Robert Greenleaf: Good leaders

“Good leaders must first become good servants.”—Robert Greenleaf.

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“Who is standing own the way of a larger consensus on the definition of the better society and paths to reaching it?” Not evil people. Not stupid people. Not apathetic people. Not the “system”. Not the protestors, the disrupters, the revolutionaries, the reactionaries. The better society will come, if it comes, with plenty of evil, stupid, apathetic people around and with an imperfect, ponderous, inertia charged “system” as the vehicle for change. The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people, and their failure to lead and to follow servants as leaders. Too many people settle for being critics or experts. There is too much intellectual wheel turning, too much retreating into “research”, too little preparation for and willingness to undertake the hard and high risk tasks of building better institutions in an imperfect world, too little disposition to see the “the problem” as residing in here and not out there. In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who has the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non servant.”

Robert K. Greenleaf, The Servant as Leader

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To Protect AND Serve? Both Are Vital

To Protect AND Serve? Both Are Vital

We’ve all seen it. Many of us have driven squad cars with these prominent words displayed – “To Protect and to Serve” — even “America’s Finest.”

Most of us know what “to protect” means; protectors are guardians and not, necessarily warriors. To me, my career was to protect others. I was not at war with anyone – even the bad guys.

Yet what does it mean to “serve” others? For the two concepts are…

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Police as Servant Leaders

Police as Servant Leaders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHd7s2OzpVI

Robert Greenleaf was a major influence on my leadership style. He was partly responsible for the creation of my Twelve Principles of Quality Leadership in the 1980s.

I wrote the following in Arrested Development:

“Robert Greenleaf. Greenleaf first used the term servant leadership in 1970:[1]

The servant-leader is servant first… That person is sharply…

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Quality Business: Play as a Team

Quality Business: Play as a Team

During my more than thirty-five years in business, I have learned, through experience and benchmarking best practice companies, what it takes to run not only a business, but a successful one. What follows is the sixth article in a series of twelve that will position any business for success. In my last column I discussed the importance of earning the trust of your employee colleagues, your…

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Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

Robert Greenleaf

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Officer: Be a Servant Leader

Officer: Be a Servant Leader

Are You a Servant Leader?

Robert Greenleaf defined the term “servant leader” as follows:[1]

The servant-leader is servant first… That person is sharply different from one who is leader first…[2]

Servant leadership is primarily having a focus on others, not oneself. It is that focus on others that makes a talented leader. The preeminent leadership test, Greenleaf noted, is for leaders to be able…

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