Servant-Leadership as a Legacy

Servant-Leadership as a Legacy

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...
Why Do We Serve?

Why Do We Serve?

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...
Bake the Damn Cookies

Bake the Damn Cookies

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...