Servant Leadership: Character and Competence = Credibility
“Character without capacity usually means weakness in a leader, but capacity without character means danger,” says David Gergen. Servant leadership development and character formation go hand-in-hand. Who a leader is is just as important as what a leader does. Street Cred When describing the core elements of how to persuade and influence others to a particular way of thinking, Aristotle said that influential leaders must possess three things: ethos (character), logos (logic), and pathos (emotion). Ethos was foundational to the other two qualities as it served as the “credibility-factor” of the speaker-leader. The Ethos Factor Today we call this the [...]
