How often have we heard the mantra: Our people are our greatest asset. Now, in the new world of 21st century leadership, it's actually true. …
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By James Strock
How often have we heard the mantra: Our people are our greatest asset. Now, in the new world of 21st century leadership, it's actually true. …
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By James Strock
Recently I happened upon some criticism, tinged with disappointment, about President Kennedy. Some people are apparently astonished that he prepared for, indeed rehearsed, his outstanding televised …
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The highest level of leadership is service. The highest level of service is leadership. At the highest level, service and leadership become one. Serve to lead. …
By James Strock
The Grammy Awards ceremonies resemble all-star games in sports: they assemble dream teams. Individual performers are plucked from familiar groups and settings and genres. They are recombined in …
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By James Strock
Serve to Lead presents a series of propositions: —Leadership in the 21st century is about service; —Service is love in action; —Leadership, therefore, is about love. …
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Serve to Lead is a practical manual—a Baedeker guide—for navigating the new world of 21st century leadership. There's much that's new and different about leadership, management, and communication …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”