Servant Leadership
Monday, January 07, 2008
I just read EY's latest post, and could understand what he was trying to get at. It's about the kind of respect that people deserves.
That aside, I would like to briefly touch on my current school's view on leadership.
According to the principal, my school values a model otherwise known as servant leadership, which basically means that the leader is like a servant who serves the crowd.
It isn't up to me to say that this model is wrong, but is the school really getting it in the purest sense?
I doubt so.
My ct has recently encouraged each and everyone of us to at least get a leadership position so that we learn how to lead.
Looking at the biggest leadership committee, the student's council, they somehow do not have the kind of leadership quality that leaders should truly possess.
What I see of them, is that they are just a group of people who wants to have fun out of school through all sorts of planning. To place it crudely, they do things which most other people don't want to do. (it's an overstatement I know, but at least that's how people perceive it to be)
and you can see from EY's post, how some of them fail miserably as leaders.
In most other CCAs, they are told to plan things that are already planned out. (there are exceptions I know of, but few.) For those who don't understand this, you should really bang yourself on the wall.
Leadership is a big word. After being 3 years of leader in my old school, I still fail to understand the real meaning of it. But it certainly doesn't mean pure planning and execution, bringing groups of students around for orientation, and collecting and paying for notes. It definitely means much more.
Sadly, my current school seems to have gotten it all wrong.