The Serving Leader Quotes

“One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Getting your ego out of the way has an even deeper organizational impact.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“To serve the many, you first serve the few.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“By putting others first the Serving Leader is able to catalyze the creation of high- performance teams.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“The leader turns the pyramid onto its head in order to serve others.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it’s the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“You get greatness out of people by expecting it.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on ‘how to succeed’ into bite-sized packages.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“Serving Leaders direct credit to others.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.”
― John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“we’ve learned so much on the ground here, from Serving Leaders who are in the trenches with their teams, businesses, and neighborhoods doing what everyone’s writing about. Our emphasis here is on what a leader actually does to support individuals, teams, and organizations. This is why we use the active word ‘serving.’ The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it’s the active Serving Leader who makes the critical difference.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

“And here’s your first hint: the Serving Leader has a way of helping everyone else succeed. Almost before we’ve spotted a Serving Leader, we notice this symptom—people all around are flourishing.”
― Ken Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community