Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership

These days, the buzzword in leadership is servant leadership. Especially when the leader is a religious leader, servant leadership is considered essential. Yet few leadership styles are as misunderstood and misapplied as servant leadership. Fundamentally, a leader and...
The Paradox of Spiritual Leadership

The Paradox of Spiritual Leadership

Leadership experts consistently advise aspiring leaders to maximize their strengths in order to become effective leaders. Efforts to overcome one’s weaknesses are commendable. However, overcoming weaknesses does not make one a better leader, because weaknesses cannot...
Listening

Listening

Leadership is “influence.” Leadership is also “communication.” Those who cannot communicate have no chance to exert influence. Great leaders throughout history—such as Churchill, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.—all possessed an outstanding command of language. In...
The Foundation of Leadership

The Foundation of Leadership

Leadership is often summed up in a single word: “influence.” If so, what lies at the very core of influence? Character drives it. General Norman Schwarzkopf, well known as a hero of the Gulf War, emphasized character when he said, “Leadership is a combination of...