A leader is one who serves in a powerful role within a community and for a specified
length of time. The juxtaposing of leader and servant is on the face of it a self-contradiction. That
might be the point, of course, but if so one has to provide an ironic twist to show that the paradox
is not a contradiction. Neither Greenleaf nor his disciples dig down into the paradox of power;
the literature needs some humor or at least a lightness of tone.