Leadership as Service to Others
Although leaders don’t necessarily do dishes and take out the trash, they nevertheless perform a valuable service for others. Like Leo, they do what is required to keep members of the group moving forward in relative harmony.
INSIGHT 3
Some leaders prefer to avoid the spotlight in order to support the group as a servant-leader.
Note how different this perspective of leadership is from the more common view of the leader as grand potentate—one to be served rather than one who serves. Hesse asks us to think about the kind of leader who is mission focused rather than ego focused. The Leo leader finds satisfaction not in the amount of attention he can command from others (the “worship” syndrome) but instead in the ...
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