Sentences with phrase «idea of the servant»

Their sustainable vision for what great leadership looks like is founded on Robert Greenleaf's idea of Servant Leadership, now referred by others as the «Zingerman's model.»

When I was growing up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I saw the idea of the servant leader lived out.

The idea of a servant continues to this day and just as Abraham was a servant of God so too are any that believe in God at this time.

But in itself the idea of the Servant of the Lord throws light upon the peculiar interpenetration of individual and corporate conceptions of religion in the Bible.

«He's the brown Mr. Brown,» the Baroness sneers; none of them can abide the idea of a servant, an Indian, a Muslim having such unfettered access to the Queen.

Not exact matches

Canadians have gotten used to the idea that they can usually afford to retire in their early 60s (except for civil servants, who can usually retire earlier because of generous public - sector pensions).

The debts that were forgiven were personal debts, agrarian debts, and the idea was to liberate the bond - servants so that they could be available to perform the corvée labor, which was the main kind of taxation in the Bronze Age, and serve in the army.

The idea that we should defer to one another, even at times be servants of one another, is one of Jesus» best ones — challenging people to put aside self for individuals and the community.

I like the idea of helping the poor and being servants of one another rather than masters.

In any case, the current Jewish idea of Gehenna is evident in the end of the story with the injunction to «cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.»

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

The idea of the Suffering Servant, a dominant theme in Hebraic Christian theology, stresses that the one who comes ultimately to give life and hope to humankind is the one who suffers for humankind, who gives himself for that humanity.

The suffering servant idea was deeply embedded into my psyche to the point where I think it became a part of my cellular makeup.

From this conviction, implicit in the whole idea of the covenant but seen with fullest clarity by the prophets, it was a logical step to the conclusion that God had given to Israel special privileges in order to be the special servant of all mankind.

Throughout human history this conflict between the «servants of Heaven» and the «servants of earth» has gone on; but only since the birth of the idea of Evolution (in some sort divinising the Universe) have the devotees of earth bestirred themselves and made of their worship a true form of religion, charged with limitless hope, striving and renunciation.

Sarah is an author, idea junkie and Chief Servant to a four year old Emperor and his one year old Chief of Staff.

Such Messianism, if interpreted outside the framework of the idea of the suffering crucified Servant, would naturally develop a historical dynamism with the idea of Messiah as Conquering King seeking power through aggression.

Here particularly the development of an ideology of public Confucianism helped to bureaucratize the samurai — turn them from private military henchmen into public servants — and to bring the common people actively into the Tokugawa consensus through the idea of benevolent rule (jinsei).

A card with night prayer and the Canticle of Simeon («Now you dismiss your servant») would also be a good idea.

Connected with such ideas are speculations concerning man's relation to God as similar to that of a servant to his master.

Perhaps her most pivotal contribution to breastfeeding support came in 1969 when her research gave her the idea of the «doula» — a term that Dana is credited with coining and which is derived from the Greek word for «female servant.»

We need the lessons in them to be embraced by the most senior officials within Departments and for the idea of political risk analysis to be formally built - in to the training of civil servants.

Certainly I hate whichever minister or civil servant in Whitehall came up with the idea of refusing to fund search - and - rescue teams in the Mediterranean — an act which they must have known was equivalent to signing their death sentence.

As I wrote in my article Beating the Welfare Bigots published on Liberal Left, the whole idea of «unemployed» people «working for their benefits» is dangerous double - think, creating a sub-category of community servants that are excluded from the minimum wage.

As I've said before — isn't it disturbing that your ideas of what makes a good public servant are so colored by your apparent affinity for Niccolo Machiavelli who is known for proposing that «a prince is praised for the illusion of being reliable in keeping his word.

The opportunity to innovate, to do things differently, to experiment with the ideas you've had instead of being told by civil servants in Whitehall that it isn't the way things are done.

Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif responded, calling Larkin a «distinguished public servant» and the Democrats «bereft of ideas.»

Cuomo, in a statement, called Martella «a dedicated, beloved public servant» who «was always full of big ideas to help solve the toughest challenges of the day.»

The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that saves taxpayers» money.

In the pre-election period the Maude agenda to radically reshape Whitehall promised much - but it has taken almost half this Parliament to gain traction with its basic idea - that elected politicians should be running the show and civil servants are there to work at the pleasure of the administration they «serve»

Gone too is the idea of an «integrated strategy» for the initiative which was being stressed by civil servants last autumn.

His idea was to create a new way of stimulating scientific innovation in Spain such that it steered clear of the civil servant culture that plagued the country.

We ultimately discover more about the servants than we do about their employers, which is also intentional: Altman notes that out of the ground rule «came the idea that the audience would get snippets of information about above - stairs people — but not all of it, and what there is would be transmitted by below - stairs gossip, sometimes contradictory.»

While I appreciate the idea of «servant leadership» (helping others is one of the most fundamental ways to feel that we're doing something meaningful in the world), I'm suspicious of any Stand and Deliver model by which the individual takes care of everybody but him - or herself.

The idea of making the market your servant will never be obsolete.

The corporate State Labor government and its public servants are so far out of touch they have no idea how many crocs have been killed over the past decade by fed - up farmers, fishermen, Aborigines and tourists.

Others have been bitterly critical of the idea that the work of the judiciary could ever be effectively delegated to mere civil servants.

One of the CIOs said he views Twitter as great tool for cross-pollinating ideas up and down the organization - kind of like «servant leadership,» he said.