One of the most prestigious accomplishments a leader can earn is that of genuine respect from the people they serve!~ SERVE2SELL

Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.

It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It’s the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership...

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are ‘subject’ to authority....

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

We laymen may not be busier than the clergy but we usually have much less choice in our hours of business. The celebrant who lengthens the service by ten minutes may, for us, throw the...

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified...

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

Teddy Roosevelt “had relished “every hour” of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the “dull thud” he would experience upon returning to private life.

Whenever you get opportunity to serve, serve with all your heart.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

Take care of your people” is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post....

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

thought that mothers never had to sleep.

He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!