{"id":1560,"date":"2013-10-06T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-10-06T19:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T23:20:54","slug":"three-minute-leadership-the-power-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2013\/10\/three-minute-leadership-the-power-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: The Power of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a recent SmartBrief Leadership article,\u00a021st-Century Leadership Learnings from 2,500 Years Ago<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Deb Mills-Scofield, writes about the virtues that Aristotle suggested as a guide to a \u201chappy life\u201d:\u00a0 courage, faith, hope, love, prudence and temperance.\u00a0 Her words on Aristotle\u2019s definition of love captured me:\u00a0 \u201c Aristotle defined love in three ways: Eros (passion), Philos (friendship) and Agape (sacrifice, servant leadership).\u201d She related them to their application in business as: \u201cVoice of the Customer,\u201d \u201cVoice of the Employee\u201d and \u201cVoice of the Community.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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The metaphor is powerful and poignant, for it is love in its deepest and most beautiful sense that inspires great leaders: their love for what they do (passion), their caring, valuing and respect for whom they serve (friendship) and their service to others in helping them find their fullest potential to achieve their own greatness sacrifice and servant leadership). Saint Augustine wrote: \u201cLove is the beauty of the soul.\u201d It is in\u00a0being<\/i>\u00a0love, that\u00a0doing<\/i>\u00a0flows so beautifully and naturally. We learn the joy and exhilaration of its power and inspiration from these words.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cWhere there is love there is life.\u201d\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader\u00a0(Eros)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove is like a friendship caught on fire.\u201d\u00a0 Bruce Lee, actor (Philos<\/i>)<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.\u201d\u00a0 Leo Buscaglia, author\u00a0(Eros)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.\u201d\u00a0 Mother Teresa\u00a0(Agape)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove is a better teacher than duty.\u201d\u00a0 Albert Einstein\u00a0(Agape)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cThe first duty of love is to listen.\u201d\u00a0 Paul Tillich, philosopher and theologian\u00a0(Philos)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.\u201d H. Jackson Brown, Jr.\u00a0(Philos)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.\u201d\u00a0 Khalil Gibran (Eros)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cFor true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.\u201d Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author\u00a0(Eros)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cLove is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.\u201d\u00a0 Euripides, philosopher,\u00a0\u00a0(Agape)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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May you fill your life and the lives of others with love. In all that you\u00a0are<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0do<\/i>, remember the words of Mother Teresa: \u201cLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.\u201d\u00a0Being<\/i>\u00a0love, then\u00a0doing<\/i>.\u00a0 Life is all so very simple when there is love.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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