MGT506 - Strategic Leadership, Mod 3 Case - PowerPoint Presentation Example

Tenets of Servant Leadership In 1970, Robert Greenleaf first described what he called the ‘servant leader’. This is an individual whose first aspiration is to serve, and subsequently makes a conscious choice to aspire to lead. Leadership in this sense is in aid of service, which is in stark contrast with an individual who would first aspire to lead before he or she would serve. For the servant leader, serving is not a task, but a calling; he does not exert effort, as much as surrender to the natural inclination, to render service.

Servant leaders generously impart their lofty ideas to those who would listen. ‘Servant leaders thrive on the opportunity to share ideas, because the process of sharing creates accountability for the results that are generated from their actions’ (Savage-Austin & Honeycutt, 2011, p. 53). Persons in positions of authority are wary of their utterances, mindful that they shall be held to what they say, when what they said was void of conviction when they said it. Servant leaders are not afraid to express their beliefs because they live their lives consistently with these beliefs.

Greenleaf had a clear and substantial view of servant leadership. He identified ten principles of servant leadership (2013). . John Quincy’s entire career was in service to the country, as diplomat, US senator, secretary of state, president, and in his post-presidential life he rendered 17 years of service as congressman. JQA’s achievements are many. He was U.S. minister to the Netherlands at the age of 27, and afterward he served in the Massachusetts State Senate and the U.S. Senate. During his return to diplomatic service he helped in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 that ended the War of 1812.

He authored the Monroe Doctrine which defined U.S. foreign policy. He also negotiated with the United Kingdom concerning America’s border with Canada to the north, and with Spain on the matter of the annexation of Florida in the south. The weight of these achievements is such that their legacy has prevailed to the present, which is testament to JQA’s foresight and this uncanny ability to persuade, conceptualize, and communicate. They have made JQA one of the greatest secretaries of state and diplomats in U.S. history (Herring, 2008).

JQA’s presidency was austere and bereft of the pomp and pageantry surrounding the present-day White House, partly because Washington D.C. during his time was characterized by ‘tottery houses surrounded by mud and besieged by snakes, rats and bugs.’ (Simpson, 2012). However, it was also in no small due to JQA’s simple and unpretentious lifestyle. His biography describes JQA’s typical day as president: “While President of the United States, he was probably the first man up in Washington, lighted his own fire, and was hard at work in his library, while sleep yet held in its obliviousness the great mass of his