Sentences with phrase «your servant»

The staff comprises highly skilled civil servants who are protected from the type of political meddling common in other countries.

In the end, the servant leader — the one who knows the troops on a deeper level — truly wins.

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For a long time, there was a broad, if diffuse, sense that Apple, Google and the like were as much heirs to»60s radicalism as servants to Wall Street capital.

«What I heard was a tendency for users to see support staff as servants, and then to treat them in a fashion that wasn't as partners.

When you take the approach of a servant leader with the millenial generation, they will respond.

It may seem counterintuitive, but this is the heart of servant leadership: As you help others succeed, you become more successful yourself.

In my years of servant leadership, I've seen it pay off in spades.

As Greenleaf himself has said, «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.

This gift impacted my career by introducing me to a servant leadership model I've tried to emulate since.

The term «servant leader» was first coined by Robert Greenleaf in a 1970 essay, and it describes leaders who seek to serve first, accepting that true leadership will be the result.

Opinion: The departure of career public servant Stephen Wood has raised questions about the role of the bureaucracy in providing frank and fearless advice.

My employees are my internal customers, and through servant leadership, I strive to make sure all of them — especially the new ones — are well - trained and set up for success.

That will force civil servants, police, and tax collectors alike to decide whose orders they are going to obey.

Ontario politicians and civil servants need to step up their efforts and expand their focus beyond these usual suspects.

State to shed 500 public servants The WA government wants to axe 500 public service jobs in the next 15 months in a further bid to rein in rampant growth in the state's bureaucracy.

The second is I've found a handful of senior civil servants in Ottawa and Queen's Park who are very open - minded about updating policies.

The holiday has an interesting history: it started because the day after Christmas was the day servants were given gifts and food from their masters, and were allowed to visit their families.

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).

«We're kind of like a British civil servant,» he says.

They are mostly running on their 2014 budget, which they had an army of civil servants assist in drafting and costing the plan.

Robert K. Greenleaf, the founder of the modern servant - leadership movement, once said: «Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well - motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.»

He mentioned three specific things that, upon closer look at the literature, make up the best of servant - leaders:

Before promoting based on tenure or job performance, ask whether a star employee is also a servant leader.

To this day, Bruce is my favorite boss because of his servant - leadership style.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

«Servant leaders» are managers who have the ability to connect with employees on a human level, supporting not only company goals and deliverables but staff members» career fulfillment and sense of belonging.

If you resonated with those bullets above, you probably worked or are currently working for a servant leader, or its close cousin — the transformational leader.

Marcel Schwantes is an expert in developing exceptional servant leadership work cultures where employees, managers, executives and their businesses thrive.

She always loved others and was a servant to others.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology.

In a statement, President Obama said of the astronaut and public servant, «John always had the right stuff, inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay... The last of America's first astronauts has left us, but propelled by their example we know that our future here on Earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens.

WHEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the respondents, their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and all members and persons acting in concert or participation with them, from the date of this Order, are

«A CEO today literally should recognize themselves as a servant of their company,» said Glaser.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

Using the concept of Servant Leadership can help you better connect with your employees

LONDON — A former senior civil servant at the Treasury has attacked the government's decision to backstop a $ 2 billion (# 1.5 billion) loan to Saudi Arabia's state oil company in an apparent bid to woo the company to list in London.

Wouldn't all that time on planes and in briefings be better spent digging through tax returns or talking to disgruntled civil servants elsewhere?

«You need the partnerships that bring public servants and private leaders together.»

No, «servant» leaders aren't slaves to their employers, or even pushovers.

RETIRED public servant and Vietnam war veteran Phil Prosser has been named the new chairman of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee.

After the first spike and crash, and after what some folks wrote about it - including your humble servant right here - it would seem that people would realize what kind of outfit this is, and that they would try to exit their shares, and be done with it, having learned a lesson about believing corporate gobbledygook instead of doing research.

Humble people like Swift display what Robert Greenleaf calls servant leadership; they use their positions of power to advance the interests of all.

Humility is a hallmark of servant leadership, because servant - leaders like Swift use their public platform to advance the interests of all.

But servant leadership in business is also based on care, because the best way to advance an organization's mission is by looking after the most important element of the company: its employees.

Don't be a servant to it.

They are mostly technocratic in nature, exhorting politicians and public servants to be more rational and scientific in finding cost savings and efficiencies.

So they're going to move to 50 - 50 and gradually require federal public servants to work until age 65.

Politicians and public servants don't have the incentives to take the tough actions to control costs because they don't personally own the funds they are managing, nor do they have the profit motive to energize them.

In Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, authors Don Frick and James Sipe describe nine helpful approaches when receiving feedback: