Chef Mark Mattern, MBA, CEC

This quarters culinary theme: Leadership is Servitude The Culinary Arts serve the needs, wants, and desires of others. Great Leaders learn that serving others actually also serves the goals of the team, creating strength, inspiring and fostering creativity and empowering the passion to get the job done! The step to that success are: Enter Inquire Exceed Exit Follow-up

This quarters culinary theme: Leadership is Servitude Enter Inquire Exceed Exit Follow-up The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons: do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society; will they benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived? (Greenleaf) Essentially, one leads by serving others in supporting their life-long personal growth and while striving for and meeting common goals. Larry C. Spears identifies ten character traits of a servant-leader as essential for leadership development. Listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community (Spears) are characteristics that can be measured objectivel