Charlie Featherston: The willingness to serve always precedes the opportunity to lead.
The willingness to serve always precedes the opportunity to lead.
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- Your highest and best use is when what you do best is used for the best interest of others.
- Servant-leadership is your gateway to greatness.
- Servant-Leadership is a noble ascent of the mind and heart to live life with a transcendent cause. It is born out of a grateful heart and expressed through a spirit of Generosity. Through Servant-Leadership one’s life becomes “sacred despoilment” of mediocrity. Servant-leadership is an initiation of Greatness…by the one serving and is intended to benefit the one being served. However, the real beneficiary of Servant-leadership is the one who leads by serving. Servant-Leadership is the most effective way to develop personal greatness that generates competence, attitude and skills that empowers one to find a need and not just fill it, but lead it. By doing so, the one who leads himself to serve others, leads others by example and creates an atmosphere of excellence where quality breeds excellence and excellence breeds quality. Servant-leadership as a modus operandi, develops the quality of indispensability that is the cause for all long-term growth and success both personally and professionally.
- God's servants are not people who just believe in Him or people who simply strive to live with a biblical world-view and seek to do the right thing. God's servants are people who live with a transcendent cause - a cause beyond themselves. Who give their time, talent, and treasure to God. Who live not to make their own dreams come true, but to make God's Dream come true, through how they live.
- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
- Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.