Marthin Luther King Jr affirmed one day: “the most persistent and urgent question of existence is that one: what are you doing for the others?” A wonderful question asked to people about the sense that they want to give to their life. After fulfilling all the personal , and often selfishness needs, what can we, or should we do for those who can’t afford a dish of meal, money to buy some medecine, shoulder to calm someone’s pain, the solidarity to built something good for everybody, for the community?
R.Arnett, CEO of East Valley Partnership during his
presentation(Humphrey seminar)
Let me rightly take the example of this vision in the
monday’s seminar, about the East Valley of Greater
Phoenixproject , which count in its members to drive it in
order to make it come true : Roc Arnett. The President and
CEO of EastValley partnership and all his collaborators
dream-project is, keeping on working and networking to
build that Phoenix East Valley, by getting involved many
companies of the State of Arizona.Their dream is to see
their descendants find a better place to live and work in
harmony with their fellows. That led them to an increasing
of the “marketing” to change the face of
Phoenix East Valley and meet the need of all these people
expected to reach over 1.6 millions residents by the year
2020. But to fullfil these needs, all the managers whom are
part of the project, have had think about that, to find what
will be better for people in a short and long term; despite
the fact that they most have already reached a high life
level in the society, living in comfortable conditions, they
found the “time” to run what is going on now;
what I call a kind of “self-donation” to the
benefit of the group. That is how I see the servant
leadership. Serving should be in fact doing one’s best
to improve people life in the community, no matter your
social position or your belonging race or religion. Managers
or simple people who have those reflections, and than,
translate them into action show a style of leadership;
the servant leadership in which it is important to :
– have time and compassion for others
– bring they know-how gained along one’s life experience;
-serve as guide to prevent any annoying or bad surprises in the future;
-inspire people to work the “WE” instead of the “ME” for successful achievement for communities;
-find in people, the feeling of “must be committed to improve the quality of people life across my city, than my country ” ;
-letting a positive and helpful legacy before passing away.
And as once said one of the great defenders of the theorie and accuracy of Servant leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf : “Good leaders must first become good servants”.
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