Some weekend Servant-Leadership articles
Ran across these over the weekend & thought you might enjoy them:
1) An interview with Dr. Ron Smith, President of Wesley Biblical Seminary. In describing his role as president, Dr. Smith says it " is to embody Christian servant-leadership so as to be a facilitator for training effective servant leaders who will serve the church here and around the world dynamically and excellently." He goes on to say: "Sorrow can best be helped by empathy. The seminary equips leaders to share people's sorrow by forging relationships that are caregiving relationships." Sounds like they are dong some great training of future servant-leaders as Wesley.
2) An Air Force first sergeant writes this article about a talk he gave on Servant-Leadership to the Airman Leadership School. I've always been impressed with the way our military trains its leaders. While many of the men and women in the military have told me they never heard the term 'servant-leadership' while serving our country, after talking to them about servant-leadership every one of them affirmed that the concept is indeed part of their leadership training and experience.
3) Andy is in the MBA program at the University of St. Thomas (my alma mater). The MBA ethics lab took him and his classmates on a tour of Toro. If you aren't aware, Toro's chairman and former CEO, Ken Melrose, is a strong believer in servant-leadership. Their tour consisted of an entire morning at the company and every topic they covered was around 'ethics.' You can read his post here. One of the main things that Andy took away from his tour and the way things are done at Toro, besides servant-leadership: "Empower your employees not only to make decisions but also allow them to point out potential damaging mistakes to senior management (even if mgmt. made them)" Great advice from a great servant-leader company. And, as Andy points out, you can find a copy of Ken Melrose's book here.
1) An interview with Dr. Ron Smith, President of Wesley Biblical Seminary. In describing his role as president, Dr. Smith says it " is to embody Christian servant-leadership so as to be a facilitator for training effective servant leaders who will serve the church here and around the world dynamically and excellently." He goes on to say: "Sorrow can best be helped by empathy. The seminary equips leaders to share people's sorrow by forging relationships that are caregiving relationships." Sounds like they are dong some great training of future servant-leaders as Wesley.
2) An Air Force first sergeant writes this article about a talk he gave on Servant-Leadership to the Airman Leadership School. I've always been impressed with the way our military trains its leaders. While many of the men and women in the military have told me they never heard the term 'servant-leadership' while serving our country, after talking to them about servant-leadership every one of them affirmed that the concept is indeed part of their leadership training and experience.
3) Andy is in the MBA program at the University of St. Thomas (my alma mater). The MBA ethics lab took him and his classmates on a tour of Toro. If you aren't aware, Toro's chairman and former CEO, Ken Melrose, is a strong believer in servant-leadership. Their tour consisted of an entire morning at the company and every topic they covered was around 'ethics.' You can read his post here. One of the main things that Andy took away from his tour and the way things are done at Toro, besides servant-leadership: "Empower your employees not only to make decisions but also allow them to point out potential damaging mistakes to senior management (even if mgmt. made them)" Great advice from a great servant-leader company. And, as Andy points out, you can find a copy of Ken Melrose's book here.
<< Home