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A 4 page review of “The Serving Leader” by Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert. No additional sources cited.
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a novel in many ways, it is a work that lays out 5 basic principles that relate to leadership. The following paper reviews the book. The Serving Leader
One of the most interesting aspects of this book is that it does not necessarily offer up new ideas, but rather simplistically brings together many well known ideas, or even
terms, and lays them out in a very logical and seemingly successful plan. For example, at one point the authors mention raising the bar. This is a term that has
been around for a long time, perhaps especially in the business world. Raising the bar essentially means putting bigger expectations on a group of people as a leader. For example,
in a real life situation one could be working at improving their swimming and timing themselves on their swimming of a lap. If that time were say 1 minute, the
individual could "raise the bar" and push themselves to do that same lap in 55 seconds the next time. And, each time the bar is raised to improve ones success.
When the authors discuss raising the bar, again a term that is very common in business, they offer it in a way that excites the character and thus enables
the reader to see it in a new light too. "It all starts with a Serving Leader who really raises the bar. I grabbed my notebook and quickly jotted down
Stephens phrase, Raise the Bar" (Jennings; Stahl-Wert, 2004; 35). This becomes more powerful when the authors first notice how the words "serving"
and "leader" do not seem to mix as they are opposites in many ways. But, in being a servant to ones people, and a leader at the same time, the
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