04607nam a2200601Ii 4500 ocn867182582 OCoLC 20200709055850.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140103s2002 nyu o 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781616430641 (electronic bk.) 1616430648 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)867182582 587729 (N$T) HM1261 .G743 2002 SOC 000000 bisacsh 303.3/4 22 HM 1261 G814s 2002 N$TA Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant leadership : a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness / essays by Robert K. Greenleaf ; edited by Larry C. Spears ; foreword by Stephen R. Covey ; afterword by Peter M. Senge. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. New York : Paulist Press, [2002] ©2002 1 online resource (x, 370 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 3, 2014). Includes index. The servant as leader -- The institution as servant -- Trustees as servants -- Servant leadership in business -- Servant leadership in education -- Servant leadership in foundations -- Servant leadership in churches -- Servant-leaders -- Servant responsibility in a bureaucratic society -- America and world leadership -- An inward journey -- Postscript. With the publication of Servant Leadership in 1977, a new paradigm of management entered the boardrooms and corporate offices of America. Robert K. Greenleaf, a retired AT&T executive, proposed that service ought to be the distinguishing characteristic of leadership. Not only would it create better, stronger companies, he said, but business leaders themselves "would find greater joy in their lives if they raised the servant aspect of their leadership and built more serving institutions." In the quarter century since these ideas were first articulated, the notion of servant leadership has gained ever more disciples in business schools, among executives, in government and in public and private institutions. Greenleaf was among the first to analyze the qualities of leaders and followers--and the necessity for leaders to be attentive to the needs of others. In this respect the leader becomes a follower. Such a leader, said Greenleaf, constantly inquires whether "other people's highest priority needs are being served. Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?" The true leader is also a seeker--alert to new possibilities, open, listening and ready for whatever develops. True leadership, then, is an inner quality as much as an exercise of authority. The present volume originated as essays and talks treating servant leadership as a general principle and the way it has been lived by particular people. Sections of the book deal with leadership in education, in foundations, in churches, in bureaucracies, and with the role of the United States as a world leader. It closes with a spiritual reflection on Robert Frost's poem "Directive". The reflection, in Greenland's words, is "partly an acknowledgment of [Frost's] influence on me and partly a sharing with those who are the search for what I have now come to see as servant leadership, and who, sooner or later and in their own way, come to grips with who they are and where they are on the journey." Leadership. Associations, institutions, etc. Management. Organizational effectiveness. Leadership. Organizations organization & administration. Führungskraft. swd Associations, institutions, etc. Management. fast (OCoLC)fst00819198 Leadership. fast (OCoLC)fst00994701 Organizational effectiveness. fast (OCoLC)fst01047852 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Electronic books. Spears, Larry C., 1955- Covey, Stephen R., foreword. Senge, Peter M., afterword. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=587729 EBSCOhost EBSC 587729 cpp6067 02 N$T 53397 53397