servant leadership: leading without power

Servant Leadership:Leading Without PowerSam Davidson – CoolPeopleCare.org

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

A revolution is a movementthat has become mainstream.

More peopleDoing more things

That become a way of life

Servant leaders are best prepared to bring aboutlarge-scale and lasting change.

Servant leaders are call to a purpose,not to a position.

Servant leaders succeedonly when his or her followers do.

Servant leaders knowwhen it’s time to move on.

Servant leaders listen.

Servant leaders persuade.

Servant leaders build community.

Having what it takes to be a servant leadercomes down to two viewpoints:

How do you view community?

How do you view change?

“Not much happens without a dream.And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality;

but the dream must be there first.”-Robert K. Greenleaf, The Servant as Leader