The Importance Of A Servant Leader

Servant leadership is important when discussing leadership. When leading by serving the person serves first and leads after. A servant leader can be someone you may not even realize is a servant leader. Isabel Lopez states, “ My earliest introduction to a servant-leadership was my family” (100). “When I went to school, I met other servant-leaders:Teachers” (Lopezn101). You yourself make the choice if you want to be a servant leader or just a leader. While these servant leaders in Lopez’s life served her in different ways, they still showed her how to be a servant leader in her family and professional life. Leading by serving is a significant concept due to the fact that we need servant leaders in our communities, schools, homes, and everywhere …show more content…
They party can not continue without Leo. In Robert Greenleaf’s, “ The Servant as Leader” was inspired by Hesse’s writing about Leo. Isabel Lopez’s “Becoming a Servant-Leader: The Personal Development Path”, is inspired by Robert Greenleaf. While each of these short stories talk about leading by serving, I see Hesse as being a servant leader. He wrote this story bout Leo which served and inspired Greenleaf and after that Lopez was inspired by Greenleaf. All there pieces gave great insight on servant leading. From reading the “Narrative of Harriet Tubman” I learned, a servant leader does not have to be a big shot, or CEO at a company who has a lot of money. Harriet Tubman was an African American slave who decided she wanted to make a change and save her people. You can be anyone and do anything to serve your community or the people around you to be a servant leader. Blockson says, “Harriet Tubman is considered one of the greatest heroines of African American history” (73). Lopez does a great way of describing becoming a servant leader. I feel as if after reading Lopez’s work I can use this when servant …show more content…
I plan to use persuasion on getting my friends interested in doing more for organizations and the community. As teenagers, transitioning from high school to college we are still trying to find ourselves and our place in this world. I want to show my friends and family my hopes and desires to help the underprivileged and allow them to serve alongside me. I want take what I have learned about servant leading and instill these traits in my younger siblings who look up to me. I want to show them they can help and do good for other while being a servant leader. It does not always take power to be a leader. After looking over this chapter, I realized just like Lopez states, “Robert Greenlead defines the servant-leader as being a servant first” (101). You should serve first, and “Then they are chosen to lead” (Lopez