Servant Leadership Overview
Published in Blog on February 21, 2023 by Van Warren Walter -Louisiana
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Servant Leadership is one of our core values at the Convention of States.
The book "Servant Leadership" is by author David Kuhnert, a retired Command Sergeant Major, and describes leadership as getting others from the “Here” to the “There.” This is a path you and your team should follow to achieve success.
A leader is someone who has reached their personal “There”. Through great conviction and courage, and even when threatened with death, a leader does what is required to reach the end of the path, “The There”.
The author references Union LTC Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Maine at Gettysburg, PA that fateful day when two armies came together in a little sleepy Pennsylvania village and fought for their beliefs.
Chamberlain’s brother encountered 13 soldiers heading away from the battle. The soldiers said they were lost. Chamberlain’s brother reminded the soldiers that desertion was an offense that could put them in front of a firing squad.
LTC Chamberlain talked to the soldiers and found out they were all sharpshooters from Maine. The Colonel told the soldiers they could join his unit preparing for battle at Cemetery Ridge. As they were advancing, the unit received a change of orders. Chamberlain’s men were ordered to advance to Little Roundtop since Cemetery Ridge was well-manned.
At Little Roundup, two Alabama regiments and one Texas regiment were forming an attack. Chamberlain had to buoy the men’s courage to attack with bayonets and drive back the Confederate units. During this battle, those 13 sharpshooters shot and killed many enemy officers and were the main success in repelling the Confederate units.
Instead of ranting, raving, and threatening the almost deserters, Chamberlain persuaded the soldiers to go from their “Here” to their “There”.
I took this course with six students from across the nation. Listening to their stories and experiences encouraged me to look at my own weaknesses and strengths.
This course helps one learn to be empathetic and humble with others. It helps one learn to teach, train, and mentor others. In short, this course helps people learn how to improve as a leader.
If you are in a leadership role with COSA and are interested in developing your leadership skills, send a message with "Servant Leadership" in the subject line to the email below. You will receive an email reply with a listing of available dates and times.
Ginny Rapini
Senior VP of Grassroots Operations and Mentoring
Email to: grapini@cosaction
Physicians for COS
The diagnosis is clear.
We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.
Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.
This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.
The treatment is also clear.
The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.
I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.
Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA