Servant Leadership & Technology
You know that feeling: you just don’t feel right about a decision. Here’s a simple leadership test to validate the decision: does it seek to serve or control your stakeholders? Naturally, you’d never seek to control control your customer, investor or employees, you say. But wait, there are nuances to these differences that may surprise [...]
A stakeholder is anyone with a vested interest in your organization and leadership. Too often, leaders make decisions without considering all stakeholders. The for-profit sector focuses too much on investors. Nonprofits focus too much on their clients. Politicians often focus on their own constituents at the exclusion of others. As a leader in your organization, you [...]
The leader who serves self-interest leads no one. The leader who serves others leads them. “He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.” ― John C. Maxwell As Maxwell points out – those with no followers are not leading. The saying can be easily extended to those [...]
A great mentor of mine was moving on to an opportunity at another company. I went to wish him well and remind him how much his leadership and example meant to me. I knew we’d keep in touch so it was not terribly sentimental. That was, until he paid me one of the greatest compliments [...]
A Results Only Work Environment (R.O.W.E.) is an environment in which workers are compensated by the results they deliver, not the hours they work. In “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” , author Daniel Pink explains how ROWE is a revolutionary principle emerging to address the motivational needs of modern workers. ROWE advocates [...]
Dear Mr. Whiner, Please, stop complaining about what you permit. I don’t appreciate you stopping by my office every day, disrupting my work and meetings to complain about that which you are not willing to work on yourself. If you are interested in discussing solutions and influencing positive changethough, I am all ears. Your Complaints [...]
We’ve had it wrong all along. It’s not social media, but “media, social”. What we consume is media first, social second. We still consume news, facts, tips, advice, marketing, videos and other media primarily but as a benefit, we now get a social aspect as well. Therefore, it’s Media, Social and not Social Media. It’s [...]
The Modern Servant Leader logo is finally here. This logo is based on the premise that servant leaders serve all stakeholders – not just employees or customers.
