Our host (Dr. Civilleti) seemed very proud of the artwork and design of the entryway into Caritas and how that existed to put the minds of patients at ease. Yet another example of art constructing a story (or creating an atmosphere) which is meant to alter perspective...
In a previous meditation I discussed the concept that a leader with positional authority is in essence a servant to the responsibilities for which that office was created (hence the description “public servant” or the concept of “military service”). When I was the commanding officer of the Air Force ROTC unit at UCLA, it became very clear to me that the sole reason for my existence in that position was to provide the best possible educational experience for the cadets in our detachment. There were many moving parts to this (from teaching classes, to arranging field trips, to formal dances, to ensuring that all their bureaucratic paperwork was in order). But anything that was not aligned with curating the experience of the cadets was secondary. Some of these tasks took more time and effort than others (and some were truly bone-achingly tedious) but if it facilitated their education and graduation it was my job to ensure the resources of the detachment (whether manpower or money) were directed towards the cadets.
In a similar fashion, I see the role of every leader is to serve the mission of the organization of which they are a part. (It's important to note for the context of this class that not all organizations exist to accomplish socially-responsible goals. The one-use plastic container industry comes to mind. Many of their products are not ecologically responsible [which is a subset of being socially responsible]. But the leader of a plastic company could be a servant to the people and mission of that plastic-producing company and thereby be serving their organization faithfully, but be socially irresponsible. So not all servant leaders are by definition socially responsible).
In my meditation on ego and spirituality I discussed the dangers of leading from an egocentric place and how spirituality could help avoid that. So I would say that a spiritual (and community centered) approach to life would be more likely to generate a servant-leader mindset. As alluded to above however, servant leaders could possibly be socially irresponsible. It all depends on the community to which they feel allegiance. If that community is a profit-driven corporation then outcomes could be irresponsible when viewed through other lenses. Corporations then must acknowledge and act in accordance with the fact that they are members of larger communities (such as the planet) and act in ways that are responsible to those larger communities...