#🌱 #🟠 # Leadership is a choice ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Sep 26, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Leadership MOC]] In *The Servant as Leader,* [[Robert Greenleaf]] wrote: > [! quote] > The servant-leader is servant first...It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve *first.* Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead....The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant - first to make sure that other people's highest-priority needs are being served. > Greenleaf was referring to servant leadership, but I would argue that any form of leadership is a choice. Whether the motivation is to "serve first," or to right a wrong, or to improve a process or workflow - a leader makes an intentional and actionable choice to lead. What's critical to note here is that leadership is not a formal role or title. Anyone, at any level of an organization, can make the choice to lead. ## Sources [[On Becoming a Servant-Leader - Frick & Spears 1996]]