Todays Leadership Nugget Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Three decades ago, I consciously choose to take the road less traveled...to leave the worlds leadership and life models behind and instead, Follow The Leader (Jesus) and adopt his heart-based, state-of-the-art, servant paradigm for life and leadership. Those who practice the servant model highly value the thoughts, feelings, opinions, ideas, talents and creativity of their followers. They take collaborative actions which invite and actively engage followers in the decision-making processes and rewards them for their contributions. These leaders are in charge, but share control with their followers via covenant-based relationships. My experiences, personally and observing and consulting in thousands of family and business leadership scenarios, has been the state-of-the-art paradigm and its participative leadership style lead to higher quality results and elevated care, cooperation, commitment, productivity, job satisfaction and morale. Leadership is a high calling and gift from God. It is a big responsibility, requiring lots of effort and sacrifice….but immensely rewarding, when enthusiastically and wisely pursued! I am obviously biased toward an approach to that calling, gift and responsibility wherein leaders understand their role is to be an agent of positive transformation by helping their followers achieve their potential. The worlds obsolete model of leadership is not based on that approach. The state-of-the-art, servant model of life and leadership turns the old on its ear. It is the road less traveled. BUT, when practiced, it leads to out-of-this world transformation…superior results with amazing rewards! The winds of change are blowing over leadership worldwide…millions are renouncing the old, obsolete paradigm for the new, state-of-the-art model.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:46:36 +0000
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