The ten characteristics of servant-leadership are by no means exhaustive. However, they communicate the power and promise that this concept offers to those who are open to its challenge. It is a term that is capable of prompting new insights and questions regarding the nature of leadership and service to others.
Life is full of curious and meaningful paradoxes.
Servant leadership is one such paradox that has slowly but surely gained hundreds of thousands of adherents over the past quarter- century. It is providing a framework from which many people are helping to improve the ways in which we treat one another in the workplace. Servant-leadership, like systems thinking, offers hope and guidance for a new era in human development and for the creation of better, more caring institutions. A good place to start is learning to listen. Work, home, and community provide endless opportunities to serve.