Meditations On Leadership
These are my thoughts on leadership related topics and ideas. It is meant to be a sort of journal for me and if you find it useful than I am happy to have helped.
"I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free." -John D. Rockefeller Jr Why do we love great leaders? What stands out in their lives that inspires us? It is the service that they rendered and the sacrifices that they made. You can't be a great leader without sacrifice and service. “Servant leadership is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you; you work for them.” ― Ken Blanchard “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.” — William Arthur Ward “In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.” ― Vern Dosch “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” ― Martin Luther King, Jr. Service and sacrifice are not only a necessary part of good leadership they are literally the recipe for leadership. Without them you can't have leadership. To lead is to serve. To serve is to sacrifice. Leadership LessonIf you want to be a leader you have to serve. If you are serving you are sacrificing. Leadership doesn't happen without service and sacrifice. If you aren't serving and you aren't sacrificing you aren't leading.
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April 2021
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