“Servant-Leadership: A Passion to Serve”

Joe Batten, who coined the phrase “be all that you can be”, is the author of the essay in Chapter 4 of Insights on Leadership titled “Servant-Leadership: A Passion to Serve.”

Although it is difficult to summarize all the concepts that Batten discusses in his essay, one statement that might come close is, “we look for strengths, for that central spark of God that reposes (although sometimes difficult to find or see) in all people.”

To find that spark in others is really what loving or leading them is all about. Batten’s article brings out many great ways to find that Great Mystery in ourselves and in others, and as a result become the servant-leaders we are meant to be.