Servant Leadership & Technology
Your leadership is a product purchased by your followers. The team invests time, effort and creativity into your organization, at least in part due to your leadership. Therefore, as you serve the organization, you owe it to them to develop your leadership product.
The best leaders serve their organizations in many ways, but one critical attribute is through their ability to connect. Highlights of John C. Maxwell’s comments on serving and connecting follow.
Mark Sanborn had many great phrases and memorable leadership quotes. His presentation focused on leaders as story builders, improvers and tellers. Below are highlights from Mark’s presentation.
Tony Dungy’s story and success in both the NFL and life read like a case-study in Servant Leadership. Below are some of the highlights from Tony Dungy’s Chick-Fil-A Leadercast interview.
At the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast, Connie Podesta focused on connecting our personal and professional lives. The servant leadership themes I took away included: leaders should align work and personal lives and they must remember that everyone is always leading by example.
Five Questions and Answers on Servant Leadership:
1. What does Servant Leadership mean to you?
2. Why should we strive to become servant leaders?
3. How does one become a servant leader?
4. What is most rewarding about servant leadership?
5. What is most challenging about servant leadership?
Signs you may need to take a “minute” and pause at work:
1. You are in a constant state of reaction, rather than planning
2. You make decisions to get them off your plate rather than to address the problem…
Great leaders ask the right questions at the right time. Asking the right question at the wrong time is useless. While great leaders are better at this than others, there is no magic to asking the right questions. By focusing on serving the organization…
“I’m not perfect and he’s not perfect. We both have weaknesses. However, he forgives bits of me and I forgive bits of him, because together, we work.”
There true emergencies in business and then there are false alarms. With the right response, hopefully we can avoid losing our sheep when the real wolf comes.
