H1N1 Survivor

It’s official. Other than a nagging cough that I haven’t been able to shake for a week now, you can add my name to the list of H1N1 survivors. I haven’t posted for a while because my family and I got the bug from my collage-age sister that moved in with us. Let me just say that it had all the potential of a horrific experience but we made the best of our time together and we consider ourselves better for passing through the experience.

I had a great opportunity to attend an open forum and luncheon with Korban Lee, Assistant City Manager of Sandy, UT. He graduated from BYU’s MPA program in 2003 and began his career with Sandy City as a managerial analyst. He discussed how he began his career and recommended several books including Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf and Servant First! Leadership for the New Millennium by John J. Sullivan just to name a few. This concept of a servant leadership is both new and interesting to me. It seems the most comon job experience I have experienced has been based on a leadership with servants rather than servant leadership. But I have very fond memories of working for one particular boss that embodied the notion of leaders taking on the responsibility of serving. He was very respectful of all his employees, and I remember feeling a sincere desire to give my best performance at work, knowing that my boss would do the same thing for me. he thought nothing of opening the door for me in the morning filling up the company car in the morning to save me some time before making my sales calls. He was a great boss and I regard him as a great man to this day.