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\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Tri Pham, FLickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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The servant-leader is servant first.<\/em><\/p>\n

It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then<\/em><\/div>\n
conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?<\/em> \u2014 Robert K. Greenleaf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“…more likely themselves to become leaders” – Isn’t that how you thought Greenleaf would end that sentence? I read it that way. We don’t naturally think of aspiring to serve – “moving up the ranks” to better position ourselves to serve.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Why write about servant leadership?<\/div>\n
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So much has been and continues to be written about servant leadership. The terms change and trend a bit differently over time. Of late, relational leadership<\/a> has gained in popularity. This type of leadership is defined <\/a>as “as a relational process of people together attempting to accomplish change or make a difference to benefit the common good.”<\/em><\/div>\n
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I love that concept and style of leading, but servant leadership goes even farther. Relational leaders can focus on their particular team or tribe, in a mentoring, collaborative role…for the good of those leaders and the organization and client base. Servant leaders aspire to a wide reach. Not just leader to leader, but to permeate the whole of the organization with an ethic that everyone, at every level, matters.<\/strong> This is a huge aspiration but the gains are huge as well.<\/div>\n
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Marcel Schwantes<\/a>, founder of Leadership from the Core<\/em><\/a>, has written a piece on the 10 Leadership Habits Found in the World’s Best Leaders<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>These ten habits are derived by Larry Spears from the Robert Greenleaf<\/a>‘s pioneer work in servant leadership. Read the article <\/a>for Schwantes full commentary, but the 10 habits follow:<\/p>\n