Servant Leader
| The status quo in business networking means hard-pushing, hand out, almost desperate sales pitches to gather business cards and send unwanted email and make unwanted calls. This status quo also requires qui pro quo of networking partners. It isn’t affective.
Servant Leaders don’t do it that way. I first heard the term Servant Leader because of a group called CEO Netweavers Houston, but I was first introduced to Servant Leadership through people I met as a learned how to recover from geekdom and discover what business development and networking meant. These networking partners, now very close friends, taught me grace, mercy and selfless giving. I later learned that some called this netweaving instead of networking. Through this path, I met the man who wrote the book on Super Performance, Dave Guerra, and he taught me that the real secret behind all super performance is Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership is pay-it-forward living in the corporate environment. Servant Leaders forsake the status quo “leadership” styles which rely on intimidation and fear, and instead put forth giving and serving as the best means to develop organisms not organizations which tend to out perform the market and super perform to the tune of much greater than 6 x normal performance. Through Servant Leadership, I have learned that it really is true that when you give it comes back to you in greater measure. I learned to value every chance to give into the lives of those open to hear about it because my giving into these lives would come back to me in spades from other directions. Applying this to my Social Networking, I have seen more than $10MM in new monthly revenue added to our firm. |
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