Three Pillars Essay

Shacola Columbus

Grand Canyon University: UNV 504 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

December 24, 2014

The college of business has three very distinctive pillars that help the college of business move a positive direction. The three pillars are servant leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, and innovation these are pillars that the college base there learning on. While looking at all three pillars you can see how they all play a role with each other. The first pillar were actually go in depth into is servant leader. Servant leader is finding out what the people needs and putting them first. Servant leaders help others and also meet their environment need that’s located around them. A servant led environment wants individuals to include their ideas and how they feel. In the article Leadership Excellence by Barrett, Colleen explains how to treat people and shows the power of a servant led organization. Colleen looks at the most important priorities in customer service, is to follow the golden rule. She encourages people to follow the golden rule treat people like they would want to be treated, and then everything else will fall into place. Having a positive and motivating environment will rub off to the customers and something positive will arise from it (Barrett, 2011).
The next pillar that comes along with servant leader is innovation. Innovation comes from a servant leaders environment; in this type of environment its helps the individuals share the power of the organization. Innovation is the important tool that will allow the organization to keep moving forward and there visions. Jason Hwang and Clayton Christensen write an article describing the innovation within the healthcare organization. The key innovation that is used is the theory of disruptive innovation and how it should match with innovate business models. Dr. Jason