{"id":1004,"date":"2019-10-02T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:56:44","slug":"the-servant-as-a-leader-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/02\/the-servant-as-a-leader-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Servant as a Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely agree that the best leaders start as a servant or a role that is similar rather than someone who goes straight into a leadership position that has never been under someone else. These type of servant to leader people are more natural in the position. They can relate to their followers and have a better connection with them making their bond stronger because they have humble beginnings. This relates to the idea that humility is an important trait to have as a leader. The servant as a leader has humility without even trying or forcing it.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Hesse\u2019s story\u00a0<em>Journey to the East\u00a0<\/em>is fictional, the idea of Leo joining them as a servant, but when he was no longer there and the journey falls apart is realistic because they needed his presence and energy there all along. When a person brings great energy and positive presence to a group they are not appointed to lead in the first place, shows great potential for that person to eventually become a good leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely agree that the best leaders start as a servant or a role that is similar rather than someone who goes straight into a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/02\/the-servant-as-a-leader-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Servant as a Leader<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}