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<\/a>\u201cBe a leader!\u201d each would say as they sent their offspring out into the world each morning.\u00a0 As Jack explained it, the call was not for his children to lead in the traditional sense, but to enable others to grow and prosper \u2013 the definition of true servant leadership.<\/p>\nThis short statement is a reminder of what it means to be a great leader \u2013 to focus upon the welfare and growth of one\u2019s peers and subordinates.<\/p>\n
[ Email readers, continue here…]<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 Think of what internalizing that and making it true would do in this business world.\u00a0 There would be no office politics, no suspicion of the intent or hidden agenda about management, no wasted time protecting that part of the anatomy we must protect when making many of our decisions in management.<\/p>\nUsed in this context, servant leadership turns the leadership pyramid upside down, causing each level nearer the customer to have more empowerment to serve the customer than the level formerly above it.\u00a0 Nordstrom, Zappos, and an increasing number of retail-centric companies practice this religiously.\u00a0\u00a0 It may not be appropriate for your enterprise at this time or in this niche, but it certainly is always appropriate in your family and social lives.<\/p>\n
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This simple statement is not what it seems at first.\u00a0 I quote this from a frequent family exhortation by parent to child in the Kemp clan, going back several generations.\u00a0 The late Jack Kemp, famous as quarterback for the Buffalo … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depending-upon-others","category-surrounding-yourself-with-talent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\u201cBe a leader!\u201d each would say as they sent their offspring out into the world each morning.\u00a0 As Jack explained it, the call was not for his children to lead in the traditional sense, but to enable others to grow and prosper \u2013 the definition of true servant leadership.<\/p>\n