137: The Power of Servant Leadership, with John Dickson
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
John Dickson: Spokane County, Washington
Here’s a link to the Lean Fighter article John mentioned about some of the work he contributed to at Boeing
John mentioned the learning organization that was articulated by Peter Senge. This model was made popular in Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline*, which is a must-read for leaders and also appears on my Top 10 books for leaders list.
“The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, and serve first. The conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.” -Robert Greenleaf
“Enthusiasm is the little recognized secret of success.” -Dale Carnegie
A recent article from the Spokesman-Review on the new utility bill payment system that John spoke of on the show.
What’s one shift you could make that would make you more like a servant leader?
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| 0:00.0 | It's not the role of the leader to be served, but to serve. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, the power of servant leadership to produce results for people and organizations. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Coaching for for leaders episode 137. |
| 0:15.1 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:20.1 | Greetings from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:28.7 | host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through |
| 0:36.4 | improved communication, human relations, and personal productivity, the people |
| 0:42.2 | parts of leadership in business. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome back for another episode of the show. |
| 0:47.6 | And as you know, if you've listened to the show for any length of time, |
| 0:51.4 | I am all about bringing on people to the show who not only have an |
| 0:57.1 | expertise and leadership, but have a track record behind them that shows the great work that they've done and really shows how they've |
| 1:06.0 | taken good leadership, coaching people skills and applied it to make wonderful things happen |
| 1:11.4 | in their organization. |
| 1:12.8 | And today I'm so glad to welcome a guest |
| 1:15.1 | who has a tremendous track record behind him |
| 1:18.1 | and also has a wonderful perspective |
| 1:21.1 | on the topic of servant leadership. |
| 1:24.0 | And this is a topic that, |
| 1:26.1 | although we've maybe touched on a few times on the show, |
| 1:29.3 | I've never really tackled this topic head on. Servant leadership is a wonderful perspective of leadership, |
| 1:36.0 | and I'm really excited to be able to welcome my guest John today |
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