ServantLeadershipAtWork

 I recently read Servant Leadership at Work: Caring About People and Getting Extraordinary Results by Kent Keith (2024). 

 My top takeaways:

• A Servant Leader’s mindset centers on ethical, practical, and meaningful.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Get to Know Each Other as People.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Understand Colleagues’ Life at Work.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Are Ethical – They Treat People Right.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Create Strong Communities at Work.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Help Colleagues Grow.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Help Colleagues Find Meaning at Work.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Help Colleagues Beyond the Workplace.
• Impactful Servant Leaders… Care About Everyone the Organization Touches.
• Find the potential – in people and processes – then optimize that potential.
• Humans are one of 50 million known species. We are part of (not apart from) nature.  

 

My favorite quotes:

 

Per Robert Greenleaf: “Love is an undefinable term, and its manifestations are both subtle and infinite. But it begins, I believe with one absolute condition: unlimited liability! As soon as one’s liability for another is qualified to any degree, love is diminished by that much.” (p. 2)

 

Winston Churchill is quoted as saying that ‘courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.’” (p. 51)

 

“Simon Sinek says that as the leader, “you’re not in charge, you are responsible for those in your charge.’” (p. 95)  

 

This book was an excellent read. Well worth the time for any who choose to be more effective Servant Leaders.