Introduction
I found another wonderful vision about what a servant leadership is and how to measure organizational health (this is the first time I talk about this second topic) in OLAGroup website.
This group is working towards creating more healthy Organizations, and this is what they write about it:
"The Healthy Organization is an organization in which the characteristics of servant leadership are displayed through the organizational culture and are valued and practice by the leadership and workforce. This is a healthy, servant organization. One that puts the needs of others first and through that gains incredible strength and power throughout the Organization".
They define in their website six key areas to work in order the get more healthy Organizations, as well as six different levels of organizational health.
Introduction
One of the problems I've seen so far in my career affecting relationship and cohesion in Organizations lies in the extreme individualism of some people, who only seek their personal glory and aggrandizement even above the Project itself.
Reading a post on the blog "1+" by my friend Gurutz Echaniz (called "Los Iluminados Occidentales"), I started thinking deeper about this matter. After we interchanged some messages, Gurutz gave me a couple of interesting ideas related to individualism VS collectivism.
First he told me the following sentence when we discussed about the existence of people who think only of themselves, people who do not have a collective vision of work (at least they do not show it by their actions)
"individual's happiness based in making the difference with the others instead of being different with the others";
Secondly he talked to me about the concept Danah Zohar is promoting right now, the one that says spiritually intelligent people are servant leaders.
I liked the union between these two words; "leader" + "servant". Strange, isn't it? I decided to go forward in the knowledge about this concept, so this is what it means.
