Servant Leadership

CNLP 825 | What Destroys Leaders: Eric Geiger on Preaching to Your Own Sins and On Disappointing Your Staff

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 25 August 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 7 min in.

Eric Geiger invokes Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf while discussing Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A. He describes the book's central distinction between a leader who serves as an activity and a servant who serves because it is their identity, using it to frame why Cathy parks furthest from the church entrance and picks up trash on his way in—not as performance of a value but as expression of who he is.

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