by Jenny | Sep 23, 2020 | Leadership, Servant Leadership
When you’re lucky enough to work with good people, stay in touch with them. Aaron Kerson and I worked together a long time ago at a green energy startup. It was a volatile environment, with constant change, a product that wasn’t ready to go to market (but went...
by Jenny | Sep 22, 2020 | Servant Leadership
Two common themes that have emerged for me about Servant Leadership are legacy and joy. In Journey to the East, Hesse (1956) writes, “The law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long (pg. 34).” Horsman’s idea of...
by Jenny | Sep 17, 2020 | Servant Leadership
While Greenleaf projects a confident image of what a servant leader is, that to be a servant leader, “begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first,” (2002, pg. 27) Horsman posits that he has struggled with “the simplicity and paradoxically...
by Jenny | Sep 16, 2020 | Leadership, Marketing, Servant Leadership, Social Media
Although I never held the title “Social Media Manager,” community management and content creation became part of my job fairly early in my career. I wasn’t particularly good at it. In fact, I grew to feel overwhelmed by the constant community management, the snark,...
by Jenny | Sep 11, 2020 | Leadership, Servant Leadership
Many, many years ago, I worked at a dysfunctional green-energy start-up. It was the kind of company that attracted young, ambitious people like me as well as seasoned Silicon Valley players because it was exciting and new. I know I was not alone in imagining that...
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