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International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Abstract

I. Robert Greenleaf refers to love as essential to both the servant and the leader in generating legitimate power in the self, the organization, the community, the world. Emerson furthers this point when he proposed the following: mediocre people want to be loved; true people are lovely. How does love influence your own leadership and your way offollowing others? I commit myself to two fundamental ingredients of love on a daily basis: to look for the contributive before the comparative in my life and to look for the good news before the bad news in others. I do not always succeed in these ventures, but when I do, my leadership is enhanced significantly because I can more readily attend to the common good before selfaggrandizement in my leadership and the "who" before the "what" in others. These two attributes are readily sensed by both colleagues and staff; and when they are, they cause empathy, trust, and an ethos of the common good. Love is a fundamental part of good organizations and good business.

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