After reading Greenleaf’s article, I believe that a servant as a leader will be a better leader in comparison to someone who inherited the leadership position. Servant leaders will be more likely to feel comfortable in a leadership role due to their natural ability instead of someone who has been put in that position and expected to lead a certain way.
I see this relate to our class discussion regarding humility and how it is vital to have that as a trait in leadership. I think that servants who rise as leaders naturally and unexpectedly are humble. In other words, these servant leaders aren’t forcing their ideas on anyone to achieve a certain role, but rather sharing ideas organically because it’s a part of their nature.
It seems to me that servant leaders can best understand the needs of their followers. However, in what cases will that focus be advantageous? How often do servant leaders truly take in all aspects of situations rather that exactly what their focused on?
I also agree with your statement of how servant leaders will feel more comfortable due to their natural ability. I also see how you connected this to our class discussion of humility.
I really like and agree with your comment about the wonderful role that “organically” sharing can have on a leader’s effective ability to lead. Your “”comparison [of servant leaders] to someone who inherited the leadership” brings me to king Charles I and the conflicts he encountered when he was not fit or groomed to rule, especially in Britain.
I also agree that Servant leaders are more fit to be leaders because they can relate to their followers more and gain a love relationship more easily than say a monarch who has been fed with a silver spoon their entire life.
I realy enjoyed this post and completely agree with what you stated. Servant leaders deserve positions of leaders because they want to serve rather than hold that position purely for power. It relates exactly to humility because people who are looking to serve those before themselves can be described as humble.