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The Servant - Chapter 3 – The Model


The Servant - Chapter 3 – The Model

Theme: Love Is the Framework. Leadership Is Its Function.


Brutal Truth

You don’t lead with control, you lead with character in motion.

Hunter introduces the Servant Leadership Model, a reversal of traditional hierarchy:
The higher your position, the more people you serve.


Strategic Breakdown

This chapter maps out the servant leadership pyramid, flipped upside down:

  • Inverted Hierarchy:
    → Traditional: People exist to serve the leader
    → Servant: Leader exists to serve the people

  • The Model’s Core Layers:

    1. Will – The decision to lead through love and service

    2. Love – Defined as the act of meeting others’ needs

    3. Service & Sacrifice – Putting others above yourself

    4. Authority – Earned through love and service

    5. Leadership – The final fruit of all the above

  • Love Redefined:
    → Not emotion, but action
    "Love is the act of extending yourself for others’ growth."

This chapter destroys the myth that love is soft or weak, 
and instead roots leadership in deliberate, courageous, daily sacrifice.


Pattern Recognition

  • Founders Who Serve Their Teams Quietly, Consistently
    → Build fierce loyalty and high-performance cultures.

  • Parents or Teachers Who Lead Through Sacrifice
    → Earn respect that discipline alone could never secure.

  • Leaders Who Build Authority Without Needing to Enforce It
    → Their presence commands attention without shouting.


High-Leverage Insight

You don’t need to feel love to act in love, and in leadership, the action is what matters.

The model is not abstract. It’s practical.
Every act of listening, showing up, forgiving, or empowering others builds authority.


Direct Challenge

Where are you withholding service under the excuse of power or burnout?

  1. What daily acts of love are missing from your leadership?

  2. Where must you serve deeper to lead stronger?

Now act:

  • Choose love as verb, not feeling.

  • Invert the pyramid.

  • And let your leadership be measured by who rises because of you.