Leadership

Hi Leaders I recently had an assessment with my boss for a possible promotion, and while we were discussing leadership, he made mention of " servant leadership ". This totally resonated with me, as I have always believed that to be a leader, one must be a servant first to know how to lead. In becoming or being a servant, the most important step to this state of leadership is, becoming humble. Humility and ego do not see eye-to-eye and will definitely be at odds with one another. To give you a quick view of the difference between traditional leadership compared to servant leadership, here is a simple diagram: As you can see, the roles of importance has flipped. So what is servant leadership exactly? While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with th...

I have been fortunate to be in a leadership or management position since I have been 20, and 19 years later, a lot  of things have changed. We have moved from a management approach to running a business to leadership, which is all the hype today. And for a good reason, and tongue in cheek, for the better. So what is leadership? Leadership can be hard to define and it means different things to different people. Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. Leadership is about mapping out where you need to go to "win" as a team or an organisation; and it is (should be) dynamic, exciting, and inspiring. Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. – Professor Warren G. Bennis Instead of listing the differences between a manager/boss and a leader, I will focus more on helping you define what kind of leader you want to be, how to ge...