Everybody Wants to go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die

10 Paradoxes of Servant Leadership

1. To lead, you first must serve.
2. To be fully engaged, you must take time to be alone.
3. To sell any corporate vision, you must tell personal stories.
4. To think clearly and objectively, you must first feel deeply and empathetically.
5. To encourage learning, you must love bad news as much as good news.
6. To be a great leader, you must be willing to be humble.
7. To receive forgiveness for your inevitable mistakes, you must freely confess and freely forgive.
8. To influence, you must balance talking with listening.
9. To have authority, you must give it all away.
10. To truly live, you must die (to self).