Servant Leader

There are many times that Ive always heared a word Public Servant that pointing all government human resources. As I have read in this article that being a good leader we think that we are a servant. The best leader should never act like a boss instead; he works more the duties of his followers. He always wants to serve and go for the commitments for the benefits of the majority. The principals and superintendents as a good administrators mind-set not to impose their power instead, theyre oriented that they are public servant. They can serve with followers through knowing everything about them from their needs in their work and even their families. Principals and superintendents always open to give the needs of the teachers for the students. According to this article, principals and superintendents can earn respect not because of their administrative title but through decisiveness and heartedly want to serves and open with their teachers and subordinates. Jesus is serves as an example in washing the feet of his followers but we dont have to what he did, we just have to do our duties not because this is our obligation but because we want to serve with people. And we care for them. As a leader, we should our followers not only their names. We must know their entire personslity but we dont have to be their friend. The article gave some ways on how to be a servant leader. These ways will guide the leaders to be one of the best leaders. The leader as servant is naturally doing his best to improve everything even not under his

supervision. It is giving of many ideas of good administrators through lot of examples stated in this article. As teacher leader, this is one big thing that helps me to be more effective leader in the near future.

The servant-leader is servant first It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessionsThe leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.

The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other peoples highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived? A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the top of the pyramid, servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible. Robert Greenleaf recognized that organizations as well as individuals could be servant-leaders. Indeed, he had great faith that servant-leader organizations could change the world. In his second major essay, The Institution as Servant, Greenleaf articulated what is often called the credo. There he said: This is my thesis: caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the rock upon which a good society is built. Whereas, until recently, caring was largely person to person, now most of it is mediated through institutions often large, complex, powerful, impersonal; not always competent; sometimes corrupt. If a better society is to be built, one that is more just and more loving, one that provides greater creative opportunity for its people, then the most open course is to raise both the capacity to serve and the very performance as servant of existing major institutions by new regenerative forces operating within them.

I remember the time when I was disscus a short story entitled Titser where the primary character was a titser. When both of her parents againts with this profession and the teaching position was comparing with other professions. They said that the teaching is the work of the slave