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Selfless Service and Servant Leadership Term Paper
Pages:2 (730 words)
Sources:2
Subject:Business
Topic:Servant Leadership
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#24883320
I get no reward financially for making this happen, but by selflessly serving I am rewarded in my spirit and my heart knowing that dog won't have to be locked up in a kennel anymore. My eyes light up when the family with one little boy and a little girl now have a friendly, healthy and fun dog in their home!
QUESTION THREE: I want to continue on the path of selfless serving throughout my life, so ASSIST is an opportunity to become a more well rounded person. Helping others as a servant of society, willingly pitching in, rolling up my sleeves -- employing the work ethic I learned while growing up on a big ranch -- to be part of a highway cleanup project, is my idea of how I will become an even greater asset to the community. Perhaps the volunteer work will be in cutting brush around a public park, or helping with a food drive around Thanksgiving (so homeless shelters will have enough food to serve all the needy that day), but whatever it happens to be, I will be a stronger and more resourceful person for having had that opportunity to serve.
QUESTION FOUR: Two-time Academy Award "Best Actor" winner Tom Hanks gave the Vassar College commencement speech in 2005, and received applause for his uncomplicated use of the four-letter word "help" (he was speaking of volunteering). Hanks exemplified the spirit of service when he told the Vassar graduates they will "always" be in a position to help. "So do it. Make peace where it is precious. Help plant trees. Help embrace diversity and celebrate differences. Help stop gridlock…help solve every problem we face -- every single one of them. Help and we will save the world. If we don't help -- it won't get done." He added, "Help publicly. Help privately. Help…by recycling and conserving and protecting, but help also in your attitude. Help make sense where sense has gone missing," he urged (Hanks, 2005).
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