Birth: 1904
Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues..
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded t….
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit..
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain..
Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is p….
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control..
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others..
The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve..
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams..
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one t….
Good leaders must first become good servants..
The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee.
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good e….
Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stu….
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, ….
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows..
A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the….
The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves..
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 grea….
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is….
For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it..