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Philosophy of Leadership
Samuel Flemming
LRDS 595
Dr. Barron
Leadership is serving others, helping individuals change for the better, and
being able bring people together to reach a common goal. Serving is the most
before themselves, and show them appreciation through it. Being a servant leader
well as the neighborhoods they live in. The servant-leader is first a foremost a
servant, this state of mind begins with the natural feeling that one wishes to serve,
to serve first (Greenleaf, 1970). Being a leader also means to bring about change in
your followers. The main thing to bring about change in followers is gaining trust
and more importantly getting them to take significant risk (Quinn, 1996, p. 5).
Change comes from helping followers to break out of systemic cycles and trying
something new that can also benefit their life. It is the duty of the leader to guide
followers through these changes and help throughout the process. Lastly, and most
importantly leaders are able to unite. Being able to understand that in any situation
each person has something unique to bring to the table. People are attracted to you
because you are so obviously passionate about their particular expertise, and
because you have many practical ideas about how their expertise can be combined
with others (Buckingham, 2015, p. 56). Leading from these three perspectives are
Reference
Buckingham, M. (2015). StandOut 2.0: assess your strengths, find your edge, win at
Quinn, R. E. (1996). Deep change: Discovering the leader within. San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.
Greenleaf, R. K. (n.d.). What is Servant Leadership? Retrieved September 28, 2017, from
https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/