Is “Servant Leadership” an Oxymoronic Term?

LaMar Herndon Doctor of Strategic Leadership Studies, School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship at Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA In an earlier blog article entitled “Servant Leadership: Hired Hands or Hired Hearts” we began the exploration of the subject of servant leadership. We refer you to the article (scroll down to view earlier blog article) [...]

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Making Room for Leadership

Making Room for Leadership, Power, Space, and Influence is a marvelous book by MaryKate Morse, professor of leadership and spiritual formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Perhaps the major premise of this book is that we do not just lead with our voice and our decisions, but we lead as well with [...]

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Servant Leadership – Hired Hearts or Hired Hands?

Dr. Kathleen Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at Regent University’s School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Recently, in listening to an audio speech by Dr. Patterson from the series “Leadership Talks,” Volume 5, Issue 1, she made a very interesting statement. Dr. Patterson stated that as “servant leaders feel called to serve [...]

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Hard Questions

Be a First Responder to Hard Questions- Harder Answers In John Burke’s “No Perfect People Allowed” (Zondervan, 2006), he devotes two chapters to the two “Tolerance Litmus Tests” that in his opinion are critically facing the 21st Century church. Since we are living in a postmodern and post Christian world, as a pastor/staff member/lay leader/person [...]

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Reverse Mentoring

The first time that I became aware of the concept/practice of reverse mentoring was when I read the book by Earl Creps, “Reverse Mentoring – How Young Leaders Can Transform The Church And Why We Should Let Them”, in the fall of 2009 as a seminary student. This book is a Leadership Network Publication by [...]

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Developing 21st Century Glocal Servant Leadership

“Leadership is Everyone’s Business” James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner The word glocal is a combination of the words local and global. Manfred Lange, credited with using the term glocal in late 1989, used it during preparations for the Global Change exhibition, and presented a poster on local and global change.  From “Global Talk”, [...]

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What is Leadership?

Below are some quotes on the topic of Leadership that I have found inspiring, and I hope you do too: Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual or leadership team induces a group to pursue objectives held by a leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers. [...]

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