tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7393780379509997234.post5748545259613652381..comments2023-06-10T10:26:03.848-05:00Comments on Ecological Leadership: Servant-LeaderTom Jablonskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886870552330964564noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7393780379509997234.post-75751022924136412012010-12-17T10:43:53.652-06:002010-12-17T10:43:53.652-06:00Anonymous,
Great connection of AA's three leg...Anonymous,<br /><br />Great connection of AA's three legacies to servant-leadership and pointing out the need for recovery first. What interest's me about Greenleaf's idea of servant leadership is his connections to Bill Wilson of AA, who he knew personally. Greenleaf also wrote some interesting articles that appeared in the AA Grapevine. I think the connection points out the universal ideas behind servant leadership. Thanks for the comments.<br /><br />TomTom Jablonskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7393780379509997234.post-11628962373659044772010-12-16T23:32:23.943-06:002010-12-16T23:32:23.943-06:00Service, one of the three legacies. The other two ...Service, one of the three legacies. The other two are recovery and unity. By the first, recovery, we recover from our addiction for more. More stuff, more money, more power, more sex...no wait there is never enough of that, well more of everything.Our quest for more that what we actually need is what has brought us to this point of self destruction.<br /><br />Second, is unity. Without unity we as a species can't survive. We need each other to help fill the parts we as individuals can do on our own. We realize that if we are not unified, not held together, and left to our individual desires we will perish. We will be crushed by a pending ecological and financial catastrophe.<br /><br />And finally there is service.....service to others. Not grudgingly serving, but gratefully serving. Grateful we have the opportunity to serve. Grateful we have recovered from our selfish ways. So grateful that we share how we over came our selfish addictions so others who want to freed from the bondage of stuff can do the same. <br /><br />And our leaders then come from our trusted servants.Not to meet their own needs, but to meet the needs of those who sent them. And these leaders are not self appointed, but come to be leaders through discernment of people who send them. <br /><br />This is servant leadership, and it doesn't begin with serving...it begins with recovery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com