selected organization. Southwest has three main values that motivate all of its employees. They are a warrior spirit, a servant heart, and a fun-luving attitude (the way Southwest spells “love”). A warrior spirit is in reference to an employee to “take the initiative” or “care about your customers” This spirit means being fearless in terms of delivering the product. The servant heart refers to the aspect of treating others with respect provide what the customer needs in a cost efficient manner.
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“…whosoever wants to be a leader among you must be a servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be slave of everyone else.” At first, this was for me the path of an idealist not meant for my world of realism, until the day I read a book that convinced my doubt: The Last Hours of Ancient Sun Light by Thom Hartmann. Then I realized that long before Jesus even defined a perfect leader, the people of the tribal cultures had followed this path of leadership for over 200,000 years; a period of the earth’s
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Servant Leadership Lynda Kosh Indiana Wesleyan University BSM 580 MGT 441 – Philosophy of Corporate Culture Facilitator: Nick Ipock June 21, 2012 Leadership today takes many forms and has numerous definitions and styles. Servant Leadership, though not a new concept, is at the forefront of discussion from leaders and observers around the globe. The final paper for Philosophy of Corporate Culture focused on the steps necessary for successful change implementation. This paper will
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My leadership viewpoint is created upon my combined life experiences, observations, successes, and failures. I vision leadership as a voyage taken together by followers and leaders to a mutual endpoint. A creative plan is what great leaders have to put in place, some type of chart or map to help them bring together and confirm they have a suitable and operative team in place, a great communication plan also and lead their followers to the endpoint. Leaders with effective skills describe and perfect
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components of the relationship between leaders and followers in Pancontinental? Within Pancontinental the key components in respect of the relationship between leaders and followers may be seen as including Emotional Intelligence, Authentic Leadership, Servant Leadership and Participative Followers. Emotional Intelligence is defined as a ‘type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s emotions, to discriminate among them and to use the information to guide one’s
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According to Johnson (2012), “The servant leadership model is based on the premise that leaders should put the needs of followers before their own needs” (p. 257). This form of leadership is important in education, especially higher education. Within a higher education environment, school knowledge is linked directly with the practical issues of interest. Where professors are not only impart knowledge, but also the sharing of experience, collaboration in joint projects and act as a bridge between
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Leader who Embodies Servant Leadership A servant leader is someone who puts others first. This is a leader who serves their follower but leads at the same time. This sounds contradictory, however, it can be a very effective way. Especially in certain situations that call specifically for a servant leader. A famous leader who embodies servant leadership was Martin Luther King, Jr. He put the needs of other citizens before his own. He did not always want to be a leader of the Civil Rights Movement
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ABSTRACT Servant leadership is an ever expanding field that is gaining more attention from business leaders. It is similar to some earlier models in that it focuses on the leader and the behaviors of the leader; it deviates in that the leader puts the follower’s needs before their own. They do this by providing nurturing and support in hopes of developing the follower to realize their full potential. At the heart of servant leadership is the central idea of truly putting follower’s needs before
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The role of Servant Leadership seems to conflict with the normal profit making or bottom line organization. There are a host of things that would distract the mission. The primary framework of the Servant Leader doesn’t place the priority of profits in their mission. Robert K. Greenleaf was the founder of the term Servant Leader. The goal and the objective of the Servant Leader is to serve first. Greenleaf identified some of the principles of a servant leader: Listening, empathy awareness commitment
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MY PERSPECTIVE ON TRANFORMATIONAL AND SERVANT LEADERSHIP Motivation of followers Transformational and Servant leadership theories have a few comparable attributes, however they are not exactly the same in the way they deal with followers. The comparative analysis of both leadership styles is the focus of the leader on the followers. Both transformational and servant leaders utilize their strength in motivating and inspiring followers to surpass their needs in discharging their functions all for
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