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1. Per the textbook a servant leader; leads and serves with love, acts with humility, is altruistic, is visionary for the followers, is trusting, is serving and empowers followers (Dierendonck& Patterson, 2010). When you have servant leadership within a community, you are able to create open lines of communication to ensure that not only yourself, but your neighbors are safe. Other ways to show servant leadership within a community would be by helping others to serve a specific cause, a crisis, a family in need, or to celebrate an accomplishment. One's influence can help make a difference for many other people and will guide them in also wanting to make a difference. Greenleaf said: "All that is needed to rebuild community as a viable life form for large numbers of people is for enough servant-leaders to show the way, not by mass movements, but by each servant-leader demonstrating his own unlimited liability for a quite specific com-munity-related group" (Spears, 2004). With that being said, all business, organizations and communities need courageous leaders. By having strong leaders who are willing to make the difficult decisions, this causes room for growth. Not all decisions will end up being the right decisions but when you have a courageous servant leader, they will do everything in their power to learn for their decisions and seek better opportunities for their people.

2. Servant leadership goes hand in hand with serving the community. A lot of the traits that make a great servant leader, such as empathy and awareness, are also traits that would make someone want to take an active roll in helping those in need. A servant leader who is aware would understand the needs in the community and someone who is empathatic would try to help out in whatever way they can. They would also, if they are doing a good job, inspire others on their team to make similar sacrifices and choices. If a culture of helping others is created at the work place it will likely carry over to personal lives.

3. Servant Leadership improves communities and society through its seven virtuous constructs of Aga'pao Love, Humility, Altruism, Trust, Vision, Empowerment, and Service. (Dierendonck, 2010) It is these constructs that forces the servant leaders to look outside of themselves to help not only the organizations that they work for but also the community and society at large. It is the fundamental basis of the servant leader as stated by Robert Greenleaf that the servant leaders are focused on serving not just those in their organization but society. As well as one of the defining factors of a servant leader is that are those followers better off for it. (Dierendonck, 2010) Leadership courage is important to realize these changes in order to persuade those around you to believe that these changes are necessary and beneficial.

4. Since Greenleaf's ideas are based on servant leadership and investment in people. There are so many positives that companies and employees can thrive from. If society could focus on the well being of their people it would provide many opportunities for the poor, enrich communities, and build greater relationships with people and the world around us. Many things would change within our society, there would be less greed and corruption. People would focus on the success of their people and not just their bank accounts. This can start very early bring practices of servant leadership into your home teach your children. When your children feel safe and loved they can bring that to their friends and their children one day. "A never-ending circle of everyone helping everyone and working together to be independent individuals with creative problem-solving skills and feelings of safety and people who care." (Wilson A. 2014) The main element that stands in the way is greed. People are greedy, people are more concerned with what tv show they are watching next other than the well being of the community around them.

5. Greenleaf's theology has presented four qualitative methods such as ethnographic, critical social studies, phenomenological, and grounded theory showing concerns of bias, validity, and reliability (Spears, 2010). The study of Greenleaf's theory may require more research based on servant leadership, but his methods are not bad to begin with and it is up to us to make that difference to be achievable. He has taught us in order to be a leader, one must want to serve first. It comes with great natural ability to want to help others, and one should be educated on how to overcome being a servant to a leader. According to Spears (2010), Greenleaf advocates to a group-oriented approach to decision making institutions strong which can emphasize the power of persuasion and seeking consensus as a form of leadership. With this, he has influenced others to make the right decision to add to how to be a great servant leader.

6. Greenleaf's theology of institutions was a belief that through true servant leadership institutions would look outside of just the redemption of individuals and realize that institutions needed redemption also. (2017) By changing the focus of theology institutions from just caring for the individual and looking outward towards how society and institutions could be changed creating a better society for everyone. This vision is one that would make a huge impact today and diminish the issues we face. Religion itself and most teachings focus purely on the redemption of the individual and therefore does not make the impact collective. Most theological institutions training people to care for just the individual without teaching how to serve and care for their members collective to empower them to create the needed theology of institution and needed societal change.