The Servant Mindset Is Not Servant Leadership. Here's Why
Jacob Morgan
Keynote Speaker, Professionally Trained Futurist, & 5x Author. Founder of "Future Of Work Leaders" (Global CHRO Community). Focused on Leadership, The Future of Work, & Employee Experience
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Leaders of the future will have to adopt the servant mindset if they want to succeed. That’s according to the 140-plus CEOs I interviewed for my book, The Future Leader.
But the servant mindset is more than just practicing servant leadership.
This mindset impacts how you serve everyone around you, including these four groups:
Thinking like a servant and constantly looking for ways to serve and help these four groups will set you apart as a leader and be essential in helping your career and your organization in years to come.
How do you practice the servant mindset??
I put together a video which talks about this in more detail. Please check it out below and if you want more content like this?you can subscribe to my Youtube channel.
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2 年Jacob Morgan- This expansion of servant leadership/mindset is refreshing. Breaking this down into the 4 categories allows for greater conversation around these aspect. More specifically, the aspect of serving yourself. Far too many have neglected the importance of self care in the very aspects that you highlighted. It is not selfish to take care of yourself even as you increase in leadership responsibilities. #selfcare
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2 年Jacob Morgan, I'm a big advocate of servant leadership and putting people first. I really like how you expanded these 4 key servant aspects! A great leadership mindset for today and future of work! Thanks!
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2 年this is great!
Founder of the Soft Skills Revolution
2 年Jacob Morgan This is great! My team and I were focusing on our values and culture a few weeks ago. Customer Servant Mindset came up. We set maximize positive change and impact on user's lives as a core tenet. To me that means that I will do anything to help our users succeed in our product and using our product to promote themselves. That's why we got into business, to make a difference in people's lives. It only makes sense that our mindset should reflect that.
COO Instrumentum | CEO Cruxible Partners | Host of the Eating Crow Podcast
2 年Jacob Morgan - this is the most concise take on servant mindset I've read. Serving customers, even if it makes things difficult in the short term, is often overlooked. I met with a group of customers for an hour last night. Well, it was more of a focus group. They shared the real issues they are facing, many of which have nothing to do with our products. These were deeply personal stories and challenges. We need to understand how to serve these needs. It's the right thing to do, and if done properly it creates a bond. It's uncomfortable for a product company to hear that the product is only part of the solution. Services are harder to get your arms around, but learning about their true needs will allow us to truly serve. Well done, will be following you for more of this...