Servant Leadership in the United States

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Servant leadership is a governance approach that has been used widely and across the globe. For instance, countries such as the United States, China, Middle East, and South Africa integrate servant leadership in their culture. Moreover, religious groups such as Christianity, Muslim, Islamic, Hinduism, and Buddhism, among others, also apply servant leadership. Although some people perceive that servant leadership is not counter-cultural and prevalent, it is essential to note that the servant leadership aspects are applied in major religions, cultures, and businesses across the world. The major three religions across the world include Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Ertel (2017) explains that religions promote servanthood for the betterment of oneself and humanity, and enables the religious leaders to empower others. Servant leaders motivate others through their ability to focus on the organizations and the individuals they lead.
Servant Leadership in Indian Culture
India is a diverse and fascinating nation with many religions, castes, cultures, and languages. Zentner (2015) explains that the country has been shaped by excellent leaders such as Ambedkar, Sarojini Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mahatma Gandhi. The leaders are well known personal models for leadership. Their excellent leadership qualities can be practiced and studied in the current development and change across the globe, because of how they influenced India.
Ancient India is the well-document by Rishi Veda Vyasa in the Mahabharata book. The Mahabharata contains the Bhagavad Gita, which is a revered Hindi Manuscript (Zentner, 2015). The Gita culture portrays a servant leader as a humanistic leader, an individual with significant individual concerns for the people he leads, and a generous person. Moreover, the Bhagavad Gita enlisted various qualities of a servant leader such as being compassionate, friendly, free from egoism and attachment, showing affection to everyone, forgiving, and having balanced in pain and pleasure. Furthermore, the Kautilya book, Arthasastra, is a traditional Indian discourse focusing on management. Kautilya acted as the adviser and minister of King Maurya, who ruled during the 4th century B.C in northern India. Kautilya wrote that the king portrayed characteristics of servant leadership by ensuring that his followers were always happy, being concerned by their welfare, and ensuring that the people he led were pleased by his leadership.
Hesse wrote the "Journey to the East" book, which propagated and proposed the servant leadership theory. According to Ertel, 2017), the book primarily discusses the Eastern religious culture of Ancient India, especially the Hindu religion. Moreover, the author displays that servant leadership in the ancient culture of India by providing numerous examples from Indian tradition.
M. K. Gandhi and Servant Leadership in India
Mahatma Gandhi was an excellent servant leader in India. He is well known for being a significant leader and an architect during the struggle for freedom in India. Zentner (2015) illustrates that during his school days, Mahatma Gandhi was shy and a below-average s...