Reflections on Servant Leadership from Corné J. Bekker
Corné serves as Associate Professor in the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship at Regent University (USA). I’ve first met Corné at the 1st Global Servant Leadership Research Roundtable in Rotterdam in July 2008. The topic of his profound presentation was “Animated to serve: The contributions of contemporary spirituality research to the study of servant leadership.” When I asked Corné to share in a few sentences what he thinks is the core of servant leadership, Corné wrote back:
Leadership sometimes draw the wrong kind of people; people mainly interested in power, prestige and privilege. Servant Leadership is a determined effort to recover the noble and humane heart of leadership. It offers leaders and organizations opportunities of moral and spiritual transformation.
What do you think about Cornés reflection? How well does it reflect your leadership experiences?
In one of the next blog entries Kathleen Patterson, who like Corné also teaches at Regent University, will share about what she considers the core of servant leadership. “Dr. Patterson is noted as an expert on servant leadership. She coordinates an annual Servant Leadership Research Roundtable on the east coast in Virginia Beach, Virginia at Regent University, where, each year both scholars and practitioners meet together to engage in servant leadership discourse. As well, she also coordinates a west coast Servant Leadership Roundtable each year in Las Vegas, Nevada at the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) conference.” (from Regents website)
I am already looking forward to Kathleens contribution:-)