We read this book with our Leadership Team. It’s a book about leadership in business primarily, but the author is a Christian, and it shows. I read this short book in a few hours. The font is big and the chapters are short. The majority of the book tells an imaginative story of two businessmen and the latter part of the book unpacks the parable (“fable” is a poor choice of words). In nuce, he suggests there are two sorts of leaders: those that want to be leaders so that they can slough off the work they dislike onto others, and those that become leaders precisely because they realize it is the hardest job and they want to be of service. Just as Jesus says that the kingdom does not rule like unbelievers by lording it over their people, but rather takes the lowest place of hardship and suffering in service of his people, so Patrick Lencioni says that good leadership must embrace suffering. He even suggests that we do away with the term “servant leadership” because that suggests the possibility of some other kind. The only leadership that is true leaderships is that which serves. The Motive asks leaders to scrutinize their own reasons for their position. Is it pride? Money? Status? Laziness? A desire for fun? In other words, is it a self-serving motive! Or, are you accepting hardship as the pathway to service and true leadership?