44 actas del xii congreso católicos y vida pública corporate clients to talk about the behaviors that characterize the most effective leaders on their teams and it was in a corporate setting, nothing to do with religion, but look at this. These individual behaviors, in most cases I suspect, are exactly the kind of behaviors that you would have described if I asked you what are some of the behaviors that might characterize a loving leader, a Christian leader, a servant leader in a business setting. So, my second big theme was this idea that we need to keep improving our leadership skills because this is the only way that we win and hold people’s respect, and confidence and cooperation. I told the laundry Bergoglio story to make the point that an important pathway for us, in these times, is to be very consistent with Christian ideas about loving and being a servant. To come to the third point now, love is going to be an effective way of role modeling leadership for us. It’s also going to transform us into more courageous, civic and social problem solvers, which is the theme of this conference. So first, venturing into this idea that love will make us better civic problem solvers I just will give you a quote from Sheryl Sandberg. chief operating of Facebook at one point. I know we no longer admire Facebook, but it’s a good quote so I am sharing it with you. At one point she said: “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”. Beautiful quote, exactly captures this call, this notion, this idea that we’re here as leaders, but specially, as loving leaders, servant leaders and Christian leaders. To make others better as a result of our presence, whether they are those who are teaching or those who are living in Ponce who don’t have their life´s needs covered or good enough health care or education. Still they were motivated, called to go out and do something about this and, let me plunge further into this idea, they were motivated or called to go out and do something about this. In order to reinforce this idea, I want to share with you another quote from a guy who is largely credited with developing the idea of servant leadership and he makes a very interesting observation that, for most of human history, think of the medieval era, the way that individuals took care of each other and conveyed love and service, was often in their individual community capacity. Now, specially since World War ll, we have big institutions who are often the ones in these roles and, therefore, the point for us is that we’re somehow called to redeem, to make more loving institutions in order to have the right impact in civic
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