No leader (business owner) sets out to mistreat employees, customers or stakeholders. But not every leader puts an equal amount of thought into whether their employees are growing and being challenged or whether their customers/stakeholders need anything above and beyond what’s already being provided to them.

Servant leadership goes even beyond your personal interactions within your company. “In business [practicing servant leadership] would start with your customers and ultimately [involve] serving society through the good work you’re doing on behalf of your customers,” says Bill George (professor of management at Harvard Business School)