While the concept of Servant Leadership was developed as a business model, in her book “Bloom Where You Are Planted: Reflections on Servant Leadership,” Dr. Crystal Davis makes the case for servant leadership an approach that can, and should be, used in all kind of relationships.
“Servant leadership is our growing edge, both in business and our daily lives,” says Davis, who has devoted the last two decades to this work.
In her book, she brings together the best academic philosophy around servant leadership and transforms it into practical, everyday applications leaders can use in all walks of life, from the board room to parenthood.
To Davis, servant leadership offers a heart-centered approach to relationships and solutions. While it’s important to work on you, under servant leadership, it’s important to value and respect others, help lift them up as you lift yourself, and to be honest person of good moral character. If we all approach leadership and relationships with others in this way, we’ll create “a kinder, safer, more loving and meaningful world.”
“Servant leadership is not just an interesting idea, but something fundamental and vital for the world, something the world truly needs,” writes Davis.
If you want to learn more about the concept of servant leadership, read her book. In the same authentic, grounded style she uses in her blog, “Lead From Within,” Davis pulls together a powerful compilation of insights from top experts in the servant leadership movement and translates their messages through her lens. She makes the concept of servant leadership easy to understand and gives you ways to embrace and make it part of your relationship style for life.
