Servant Leadership: Spiritual Dimension in Leadership

This article aims to show that these days it is very important to consider the spiritual dimension in leadership, because the absence of a leader with high spiritual evolution makes it impossible for human to evolve. A leader should also be accountable not only on the horizontal level but also at the vertical level. Phenomenological studies and literature about the practice of leadership are faced with a number of theories about leadership and then synthesized into the more authentic leaderships rather than just imaging or false branding leadership. Based on the assumption a leader (including in the political sphere) is merely a sociological problem that needs to be completed with spiritual dimension, while in its historical development of leadership, it is never excluded from the spiritual dimension, although manipulative (just because common people understand that leadership came from the "sky" (gods), resulting in a tyrannical king, which eventulally led to the birth of authentic leadership as popularized by Robert K. Greenleaf as the servant leadership. This article concludes that an authentic leadership will give more benefit to develop the life system as well as the purpose of leadership itself rather than the apparent leadership, which actually hurts the members (people). Therefore, it is very important for education to teach this to all students of the World.