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Channel Your Creativity into Servant Leadership
Those of us who create with words, sounds and images as part of our work have a special talent.
We can touch the hearts and minds of people whom we’ve never met, and give them something to think about, something to feel, something to take action on.
What a wonderful gift that is. And in this week when many in the United States are giving thanks, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the responsibility that accompanies that gift.
While we have platforms to influence and touch the lives of others by leading, we also have an opportunity to serve at the same time. The concept of servant leadership is bound by the desire to serve first, then to lead.
In 1999, Fred Rogers (yes, Mister Rogers, whom we’ve discussed before) gave an acceptance speech when he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. In part, he said:
I feel that those of us in television are chosen to be servants. It doesn’t matter what our particular job, we are chosen to help meet the deeper needs of those who watch and listen — day and night! Who in your life has been such a servant to you … who has helped you love the good that grows within you?
Let’s just take ten seconds to think of some of those people who have loved us and wanted what was best for us in life -those…
