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“To know is to comprehend. Do you know,
do you comprehend, in this moment,
who or what you serve? We must all be
serving someone or something. Whom or
what are you choosing to serve right now?
It takes courage to ask this question of
yourself. But without courage, you can’t
practice any other value consistently.”
—Maya Angelou
Journey to the East
• How does Hesse describe Leo the
Servant as simultaneously a leader?
• Leo’s Law of Service:
– The person “who wishes to live long must
serve, but he who wishes to rule does not
live long.”
• What are the results of Leo’s
disappearance?
Characteristics of
Servant Leaders
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Express unlimited liability for others
Know self well
Hold a liberating vision
Use persuasion
Build community
Use power ethically
Reverence
• Explore Woodruff’s statement that
“service without reverence is
smoldering toward rebellion”
• What are the connections between
reverence and servant leadership?
Harriet Tubman
• What are her leadership
characteristics?
• In what ways does she exhibit the list
of servant leader characteristics?
• In what ways does she fit Greenleaf’s
definition of the servant leader?
– Someone who expects more of
themselves and the world than history
says they have a right to expect…
Florence Nightingale
• What are her leadership
characteristics?
• In what ways does she exhibit the list
of servant leader characteristics?
• In what ways does she fit Greenleaf’s
definition of the servant leader?
– Someone who expects more of
themselves and the world than history
says they have a right to expect…
Film Study: Hotel Rwanda
• Whom or what does Paul serve at the
beginning of the movie? Why do you
think this changes?
• What characteristics, talents, or skills
does Paul have that help him to be a
servant leader?