Servant Leadership Principles & Practices

Purposeful delegation is one of the three distinctive practices of servant-leaders in the workplace.* Why is purposeful delegation so important? For one thing, it’s the best way to develop people. Here’s a quote making that point, which is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve […]

Servant-leaders in the workplace know that time is a precious resource. “Of the other major resources,” writes the great management thinker, Peter Drucker, “money is actually quite plentiful.”  “People,” Drucker continues, “one can hire, though one can rarely hire enough good people.” “But one cannot rent, hire, buy, or otherwise obtain more time.” That’s what Drucker

Meetings are a fact of business life. It goes without saying that servant-leaders in the workplace approach things – including meetings – from a servant leadership perspective. So, aspiring servant-leaders in the workplace might find this checklist helpful. Ask yourself, when holding meeting, do you: Consider whether the meeting is necessary?Ineffective organizations meet too much.