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Summary: Spend a life developing others!
Review: This book is a lesson in maturity. John Daily is sent by his psychologist wife to a seminar at a monestery as a last ditch effort to get a grip on his life. The reader is allowed to reflect on the experiences there that bring him to the notion of true leadership- - - Developing others. Developing others is a selfless task, turned into a way of life. John first learns he must give up his ego, then how to encourage, reward, and coach others to be the most they can be. He leaves the seminar believing he has shortchanged all the people in his life and is motivated to make it up to them. He has a new inner voice to follow, and can once again think out of the box. The book does have some religious overtones, but they are very subtle. Whatever your role in life, this book can make a difference for you. It is the type of book that can be re-read at a different point in your life and bring new awareness to an old problem.
If you are involved in motivating individuals at work, at home, school or in any community setting, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Excellent for every person in a management position
Review: This book is an excellent example of how a leader should function. It provides wonderful insight on what being a servant is all about in a Leadership position!
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Summary: Excellent for every person in a management position
Review: This book is an excellent example of how a leader should function. It provides wonderful insight on what being a servant is all about in a Leadership position!
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Summary: Teachers! A Must Read for High School Students.
Review: This book was a joy to read and I thought how wonderful it would be to teach students in high school and/or college about the simple principles of servant leadership using this book as an outline. If these principles were in enacted in business, government, the church and all organizations, our world would be transformed. The main premise is treating people as you would wish to be treated, with respect and dignity. Also, focusing great attention on the art of listening.
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Summary: Teachers! A Must Read for High School Students.
Review: This book was a joy to read and I thought how wonderful it would be to teach students in high school and/or college about the simple principles of servant leadership using this book as an outline. If these principles were in enacted in business, government, the church and all organizations, our world would be transformed. The main premise is treating people as you would wish to be treated, with respect and dignity. Also, focusing great attention on the art of listening.
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Summary: The Servant will empower you to love and earn love in return
Review: This book will take you by surprise. What starts out as a nice story turns into a powerful how-to for having truly meaningful relationships with others. The beauty of it is in the way it is told. Instead of some neat little manual with outlines, diagrams and worksheets, this book draws you into real life characters and lets you feel what they feel. It makes you find the one that is most like you. It lets you see yourself and the person you want to be. This book is so compelling, you won't have to take any notes or pull out your highliter. Once you identify with the true Servant, you will not forget how it's done or wonder what to do next. When you are finished reading, the only thing left to do is to choose to listen to the new voice in your heart. If ever there was a book that was worth it's weight in gold, this is the one.
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Summary: A must read for leaders that want to do it the right way!
Review: This is a fabulous book that I found myself unable to put down. I started reading it about 8 pm one night and stayed up until I was finished (about 1 am). I have read many business books in the past and have set through a great number of courses on leadership. The Servant, by James C. Hunter, summed up all of them in 187 pages.This is a fictional story of a manager that goes on a weeklong leadership retreat. He has been successful but is finding his life not what it should be. His marriage is suffering, his relationships with his children are suffering, his relationships with his employees is strained. So he allows himself to go on a retreat in which he doesn't see himself learning a great deal on. But that is where he is wrong. The majority of the book is focused on what he did learn. Through a fictional teacher and fictional leadership seminar, James Hunter takes us all on a journey of self discovery. He breaks down leadership to its most basic characteristics, much to the reader's surprise. It is a well written book that I immediately bought several more copies of to give as gifts to some of my closest friends.
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Summary: A must read for leaders that want to do it the right way!
Review: This is a fabulous book that I found myself unable to put down. I started reading it about 8 pm one night and stayed up until I was finished (about 1 am). I have read many business books in the past and have set through a great number of courses on leadership. The Servant, by James C. Hunter, summed up all of them in 187 pages. This is a fictional story of a manager that goes on a weeklong leadership retreat. He has been successful but is finding his life not what it should be. His marriage is suffering, his relationships with his children are suffering, his relationships with his employees is strained. So he allows himself to go on a retreat in which he doesn't see himself learning a great deal on. But that is where he is wrong. The majority of the book is focused on what he did learn. Through a fictional teacher and fictional leadership seminar, James Hunter takes us all on a journey of self discovery. He breaks down leadership to its most basic characteristics, much to the reader's surprise. It is a well written book that I immediately bought several more copies of to give as gifts to some of my closest friends.
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Summary: Great help to my life!
Review: This is a simple yet truly profound story that helps the reader understand the great responsibility that Leadership really is. Understanding this role is part of the challenge in my personal life in being a manager. While refreshing, I found it of particular interest that NONE of the principles outlined are really new. Examples of leadership are legitimately "stolen" from scriptures, inspirational literature, classics, and fundamental wisdom. The reader walks away with a depth and appreciation that is incredibly helpful. This is one book that will really help you - It certainly has helped me!
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Summary: One of the better books on leadership.
Review: This is an excellent, short book on the principles of leadership. I prefer leadership books that use real-life leaders as models rather than the contrived storyline method used here, but that did't detract from its message -- only its delivery.
Hunter espouses a series of easily understood leadership traits.
· Treat others exactly the way you would want them to treat you.
· Listening is the most important skill a leader can develop.
· You manage things, you lead people.
· The key to leadership is accomplishing the tasks at hand while building relationships.
· Trust is the most important ingredient in successful relationships.
· Your feelings of respect must be aligned with your actions of respect.
· A leader is someone who identifies and meets the legitimate needs of their people, removes all the barriers, so they can serve the customer. To lead, you must serve.
· Slaves do what others want, servants do what others need.
· Intentions minus actions equal squat.
· Love is patience, kindness, humility, respectfulness, selflessness, forgiveness, honesty, and commitment. This is also a definition of leadership.
· At the core of human personality is the need to be appreciated.
· Love is the act or acts of extending yourself for others by identifying and meeting their legitimate needs.
· There are only two things in life everyone must do: die and make choices.
· We do not see the world as it is, we see the world is we are.
My experience is that his list is correct, albeit it is somewhat incomplete. For example, it doesn't touch on decisiveness, intuition, and other characteristics that one will find in a good leader. Still, it's well worth the short time it takes to read.
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