Define servant leadership Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 defines Servant Leadership as a leader that is servant first and has the desire to serve. Been a servant leader is not about being servile but about wanting to help others. He continues to define the servant leader as having natural feeling of wanting to serve first and an aspiration to lead. He defines the savant leader in his essay as” that person is sharply different from one who is a leader, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions ("what is servant leadership," 2010, p. 1). The leader first and the servant first are two extreme types and between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite …show more content…
It is the combination of the disciplines of strategic thinking through the use of strategic foresight, strategic alignment, by utilizing strategic leadership, and strategic action through the use of strategic management”. (Sowcik, Andenoro, Mcnutt, & Murphy, 2015, p. 111). Anticipatory leadership is futurist: positioning the organization for future success consistently demonstrating their skills. An anticipatory leader understands their organization by thinking through the obvious.
They explore other industries worldwide and collect ideas from both conventional and obscure sources; they are able to see new possibilities in order to move their company forward. Structural insight is used to communicate within the organization and leaders usually collaborate with staff members formulate high leverage strategies that results in the business markets which in turn dominates the products and services that the company provides (Sowcik et al., 2015, p. 112). An anticipatory leader has enthusiasm, empathy, and interpersonal skills that mobilize others to do something great. They orchestrate is the organizational learning process and design human systems and learn to use these forces to their …show more content…
the first leadership imperative is agility which is defined as the ability to nimbly operates current business while simultaneously preparing for changing or new conditions. Agile leaders recognize the value of collaboration with employees who are willing to contribute energy and new ideas. Agile leader will formulate a new vision of their organization’s future and with teamwork make the transformation possible. (Kaufman, Grube, & York, 2013, p. 1)
The second leadership imperative relates to the increasingly extreme contexts in which leaders and their stakeholders will have to operate as a result of the explosive nonlinear growth of future challenges. Leaders across the sector and industries around the globe face increasingly adaptive technical challenges. While technical challenges can be solved by the knowledge of experts adaptive challenges effectively requires the altering of human dimensions such as pace of adjustment, tolerance for conflict, uncertainty and risk as well as the resilience of the culture and networks of authority and lateral relationships. (Sowcik et al., 2015, p.