{"id":1112,"date":"2020-09-22T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2020-09-22T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:24:56","slug":"servant-leadership-as-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Servant-Leadership as a Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mohamed-nohassi-odxB5oIG_iA-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"mohamed-nohassi-odxB5oIG_iA-unsplash\" class=\"wp-image-1115 alignnone size-medium\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>Two common themes that have emerged for me about Servant Leadership are legacy and joy.\u00a0\u00a0In <em>Journey to the East<\/em>, Hesse (1956) writes, \u201cThe law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long (pg. 34).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horsman\u2019s idea of <em>pass it on <\/em>is an example of where we see how legacy can impact a team. What one leader does has a ripple effect that spreads far past a business result or goal. Wambach (2019) writes, \u201cThey spent their lives and careers building something that many of them knew they\u2019d never get to take advantage of \u2013 but they did it anyway.\u201d There is a vulnerability in choosing to serve first. To be a servant-leader is to accept that we may never see or understand the impact of how we lead.<\/p>\n<p>The second theme I find consistently in servant Leadership is joy. I hope we all get to experience the kind of leader that is a joy to be around &#8211; the kind who inspires trust and teaches as much as they direct. Greenleaf (2002, pg. 57) spoke of how joy is created inward and generated outward. As servant-leaders we have the capacity for extreme amounts of joy that we can then project outwardly. Brooks (2019, pg. 28) writes, \u201cThe people who radiate a permanent joy have given themselves over to lives of deep and loving commitment. Giving has become their nature, and little by little they have made their souls incandescent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is joy a metric we can use to weigh the effectiveness of servant leadership?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Brooks, D. (2019). The second mountain the quest for a moral life. New York: Random House.<\/p>\n<p>Greenleaf, R. K., &amp; Spears, L. C. (2002). Servant leadership: A journey into the nature of<\/p>\n<p>legitimate power and greatness. New York: Paulist Press.<\/p>\n<p>Hesse, H. (1957). Journey to the east. New York: Picador.<\/p>\n<p>Wambach, A. (2019). Wolfpack: How to come together, unleash our power, and change the game. New York: Celadon Books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-servant-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servantmarketer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}