The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

"The Servant" is the story of John Daily, a coach, father, and manager who seemingly has it all together. But beneath the surface, the wheels have begun to fall off his life. Many of us will be able to see ourselves in him: driven, worldly, ambitious, anxious; a wreck waiting to happen. John goes to a "retreat" at a monastery in a search for answers to those questions of his life, the missing pieces of his heart. At the hands... Read Full Review

Reune grandes ideas y conocimiento aplicable a la vida laboral y del hogar. Un gran libro con ideas muy claras sobre como ser un verdadero lider y de esta forma un lider que logre resultados

I recently read the 180 pages of this book and was deeply impacted by the message it shared. Other reviews discuss the setting of its parable, and how it is told. I'd like to share a bit about its message and how it touched me.The main concept of the book is that there is a distinct difference between authority and power.POWER = The ability to force others, by virtue of your position over them, to do what you wish them to... Read Full Review

The Servant is an incredibly simple and gentle story that reveals wisdom above and beyond the leadership training that is going on in boardrooms across North America today. Business is changing, and with it the needed characteristics of our leaders must change also. Gone are the days when the dictator...or the technical manager could drive a company forward to success. What it takes now is someone who can serve in a very... Read Full Review

The Servant -- A ReviewEveryone serves. Some more than others. It is impossible to not serve either yourself, someone else or something else. The Servant - written by James C. Hunter, simply illustrates this fundamental of successful living in an easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down allegory about leadership through servanthood. These 187 pages are super-saturated with wisdom that can be absorbed by a grade-schooler. In... Read Full Review