Servant Leadership Style Analysis

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Introduction Topic: In this summary I will discuss the three main topics I took away from our text as important attributes of leadership: servant leadership style, the importance of meetings, and Maslow’s Needs, recognizing when your employees needs are not being met.

Three Concepts:
Satterlee teaches that a leader and a manager are very different, even though we often use the two word interchangeably. If a manager is to become a leader the must hone their skills i.e., human nature, listening, and use of influence. Servant Leadership, is a very well rounded style of leadership grasping the best of both worlds. Servant Leaders can follow and lead, they are in the trenches with their employees performing all duties as they chose to serve first and then lead. (Satterlee, 2016) Robert Greenleaf coined the phrase, but this style of leadership has been around for much longer.
Jesus, is a perfect example of a servant leader; he was a servant for us all, and lead by example. In practice this type of leadership can distract the unscrupulous side of leadership, such as: greed, power hungry nature, and egotism. (Maybe, Conroy, Blakely, and Marco, 2016) “Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man
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Maslow give us an acute snap shot of how humans progress in not just working situations, but in life. Maslow’s Need Hierarchy gives us a series of five stages of prerequisite fulfillment. The needs in the prior stages must be met before you can move to the subsequent obligation. Out of all of the theories we have discussed thus far this one made the most sense to me. The needs pyramid begins with the basic physiological needs such as food and water and then continue all the way up to self-actualization requirements such as morality and