The national elections are just around the corner. Proclamation rallies and sorties are happening left and right with the candidates’ political maneuvers. Looking at where our country has been requires us to be discerning.
One of the most influential leadership experts of our time is Ken Blanchard. He co-founded a movement called Lead Like Jesus, where I serve as regional representative for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. When we first ran Lead Like Jesus in the Philippines, I honestly thought it would not work because of its spiritual underpinnings. But more and more companies are coming to realize that the nature and quality of one’s leadership is not just a matter of experience, education or people skills, but is essentially character-based, founded on such values as stewardship, responsibility, and accountability. It has almost been two decades, and we’re still running the program in the corporate world.
All those years of teaching servant leadership have challenged my standards as I think about my own personal leadership, about how to develop other organizational leaders, and about my own choices for our next set of national leaders.
In electing the next leaders of our nation, it is crucial to ask, “Are you choosing servant leaders or self-serving leaders?” In this episode, let me share with you some pointers on what a servant leader is like.
