This quarter I am teaching Foundations of Personal & Professional Leadership at Ohio State-ATI. This morning in class we examined a chapter in Maxwell’s “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader” that focuses on servant leadership. Our class discussion was centered on how the students will serve others in their future careers when one young woman asked, “What if you serve too much?”
While her question prompted more a discussion of what “service” means and how we might distinguish that from doing others’ work for them, it did raise a good thought. Is there a balance between serving others and maintaining your own agenda? I believe effective leaders achieve their agenda THROUGH serving others.
What are you doing to serve others?
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