The Power of Servant-LeadershipBased on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf, a former AT&T executive who coined the term almost thirty years ago, servant-leadership emphasizes an emerging approach to leadership—one which puts serving others, including employees, customers, and community, first. The Power of Servant Leadership is a collection of eight of Greenleaf's most compelling essays on servant-leadership. These essays, published together in one volume for the first time, contain many of Greenleaf's best insights into the nature and practice of servant-leadership and show his continual refinement of the servant-as-leader concept. In addition, several of the essays focus on the related issues of spirit, commitment to vision, and wholeness. |
Contents
Servant Retrospect and Prospect | 17 |
Education and Maturity | 61 |
The Leadership Crisis A Message for College and University Faculty | 77 |
Have You a Dream Deferred? | 93 |
The Servant as Religious Leader | 111 |
Seminary as Servant | 169 |
My Debt to E B White | 235 |
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The Power of Servant-Leadership (Large Print 16pt) Peter B. Vaill,Robert K. Greenleaf,Spears, Larry C. No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 4 - The servant-leader is servant first ... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. He or she is sharply different from the person who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions.