Servant Leadership

1. Servant Leadership Greenleaf, chapter iii – This chapter Heschel argues for servant leadership in higher order agencies like trustees of organizations.

2. One must Care • Greenleaf argues that whenever one is involved in leading – whatever the role – one must care. One must be involved and truly care about the organization and the people within that organization. • Too often individuals are leaders and do NOT care about their people – rather they care about themselves and how well they look to their own superiors. • When individuals are used a pawns in a game of chess – the end result is a game of power.

3. Power • Absolute power – absolutely corrupts… Lord Acton… Greenleaf argues that power must be tempered and power must be controlled through advisement. • He gives the story that Eisenhower didn’t fire Patton after Patton slapped a battle fatigued soldier in an army hospital. He thought Patton should have been removed, but he had no one who could do the job as ably as Patton under pressure.

4. Abraham Joshua Heschel • A true servant leader – author of Man in Not Alone, Heschel was involved in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s as well as the Anti-Vietnam movement. • The greatest sin of man is to forget tht he is a prince –that he has royal power. All worlds are in need of exaltation, and everyone is charged to lift what is low, tounite what lies apart, to advance what is left behind. It is as if all worlds…are full of expectancy, of scred goals to be reaches, so that consummation can come to pass. And man is called upon to bring about the climax slowly but decisively. Abraham Joshua Heschel.