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Essay / The Servant Leader - 4773
Leadership! What really sets a person apart as a leader? Is it a leadership style or the possession of certain skills and abilities to lead? Is it character or a person's ability to develop and solve complex strategies? Are leaders born or made? Warren G. Bennis, American academic, professor emeritus of business administration and founding president of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, once said: The most dangerous myth in leadership is that leaders are born, that there is a genetic factor for direction. This myth states that people do or do not possess certain charismatic qualities. This is absurd; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are born rather than born. (ThinkExist.com, “Warren G. Bennis Quotes on Leadership.” http://thinkexist.com/quotes/warren_g._bennis/. Here in America, all of our armed forces are built on the principle that leaders are Additionally, many U.S. Fortune 500 companies believe that leaders are made, as evidenced by their annual expenditure of countless resources to develop leadership training materials and conduct training and development seminars. in the hope of creating the "uber" leader Two years have confirmed to us, as history has repeatedly revealed to us, that man's understanding of leadership and God's design for leadership differ. considerably. At the heart of man's leadership and at the head of man's leadership is himself and, therefore, man's leadership ultimately leads to failure. t is not without consequences and humanity, in its despair and despair, rebels against God. In direct contrast, God's design for leadership begins and ends in the middle of paper.... ..ity,” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/person-personality.The Greek Bible Study Online: read, word study, translate, “Paraklete,” http://www.greekbiblestudy.org/gnt/main.do.NOTESBurrell, Dan, Dr. DSMN 605 Lecture Notes, Lesson 4. Lynchburg, VA: Liberty University. (APA Style - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.). (2005). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster. Song of Roland. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, [1959].9. Tim Lynch , DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations Review, 1996, [online], available at http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503r.html, October 8, 1997. B Lynch, Tim. DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations. [Online].1997.