The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.