John RiceSustainment Engineer| Lockheed MartinHarmony, Fl, United States
I purpose the same question that Claar, V. V., Jackson, L., & TenHaken, V. asked in their 2016 article, “Are Servant Leaders Born or Made?”
Authentic servant leadership is based on the premise of serving others and putting others’ interests before personal interests. If this premise is true, then many will be unable to practice servant leadership due to a lack of the prerequisite attributes of a servant leader (Greenleaf, 1977).
Consider the possibility that servant leadership practices and attitudes may be formed and developed in those to whom servant leadership does not come naturally. If so, then servant leadership may potentially be utilized by those who are not natural servant leaders in one of two ways.
First, it is possible that one may grow into an authentic servant leader through the ongoing practice of the habits of servant leaders. If so, this is a powerful idea.
Second, it seems possible that a skillful manager may potentially draw from the quiver of authentic servant leadership on a situational basis.
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