Logos, Pathos, Ethos and

POWER Leadership is the ability to develop a PURPOSEFUL relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with YOUR vision. - e.g. The Corporate Leader [Logos]
Power leadership has nothing to do with morality or empathy. This leader persuades people to follow him by any means necessary. Napoleon led the French to catastrophe, and they followed him almost to the end.  Marlborough and Wellington were masters of Power Leadership, unfortunately for the world so was Hitler. Al Capone was a Power Leader in a criminal context.


SERVANT leadership is the ability to develop a LASTING relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with THEIR vision. - e.g. The Political Leader
[Pathos] 
The archetypal Servant Leader was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who while wielding tremendous personal and political power practised and advocated non-violence and truth, even in the most extreme situations. A student of Hindu philosophy, he lived simply, organising an ashram that was self-sufficient in its needs. Making his own clothes—the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl woven with a charkha—he lived on a simple vegetarian diet. He used rigorous fasts, for long periods, for both self-purification and protest.  Nelson Mandela was born and raised to be a Power Leader as a tribal chief, his 'long walk to freedom' sees him arrive in power as the first President of a united South Africa and the most significant Servant Leader of the modern era.  Dusé Mohamed Ali an influential Pan-Africanist, a supporter of Islam.  He traveled widely throughout the African Diaspora. He founded the African Times and Orient Review in 1911, which spread the call for African nationalism, and later founded The Comet in Lagos, Nigeria.


GREAT leadership is the ability to develop a LASTING relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with A SHARED vision. - e.g. The Spiritual Leader 
[Ethos]
Servant Leader Martin Luther King moved into the Category of Great Leader when he crystallised a nation's [and perhaps the World's] vision with a speech that captured the 'Dream' shared by all races, creeds and colours.  Julius Kambarage Nyerere was one of Africa's leading independence heroes (and a leading light behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity), the architect of ujamaa (an African socialist philosophy which revolutionized Tanzania's agricultural system), the prime minister of an independent Tanganyika, and the first president of Tanzania.  Kwame Nkrumah was the motivating force behind the movement for liberation of Ghana, and its first president when it regained independence in 1957. His numerous writings address Africa's political destiny. In 1999 BBC world service listeners in Africa voted Kwame Nkrumah, "Man of the Millennium".




Typically Power Leadership is short lived and the power leader is dethroned by a rival or disillusioned followers.  The nature of the Power Leader is such that they will continually strive to return to power


The Servant leader will normally step down once the task is completed and be reluctant to return.  Servant Leaders who serve for extended periods can evolve into great leaders... if they survive the twin threats of the corrupting effects of power and the correcting actions of the men in shadows!