Focus On Leadership
From FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP . . .\ Robert K. Greenleaf from "The Servant as Leader"\ "The servant-leader is servant first. Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.... The best test is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?"\ Ken Blanchard from "The Heart of...
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Robert K. Greenleaf first wrote about a new type of leader, the servant-leader, in 1970, but his idea remains a revolutionary approach to managing an organization. Servant-leadership stresses the importance and benefit leaders gain by serving the welfare of employees, customers, and communities. Traditional leadership modes that concentrate solely on the quest for profit or the attainment of goals at any cost are giving way to a holistic approach to work that promotes a sense of community and the sharing of power in decision-making. Servant-leadership is a long-term, transformational approach to life and work that has the potential for creating positive change throughout society.Focus on Leadership highlights the importance of Greenleaf's ideas on management theory and their impact across the contemporary business landscape. It offers a selection of writing from some of the leading thinkers on servant-leadership and management culture, including Warren Bennis, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, and John Bogle. It also includes an excerpt from Greenleaf's seminal essay "The Servant as Leader" that serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and essentials of servant-leadership. Other highlights include essays on the ideal servant-leader, companies that have put the servant-leadership model to work in their own corporate structures, servant-leadership at work in educational and philanthropic institutions, and servant-leadership in the new economy.The essays here fall into four categories that cover servant-leadership's relation to the individual, the workplace, the surrounding community, and the world as a whole. These essays present a fundamental understanding and the newest thinking on servant-leadership's ability to change lives in our communities and in communities around the world.For those already familiar with servant-leadership, Focus on Leadership offers an opportunity to further explore Greenleaf's revolutionary ideas. For those just discovering servant-leadership, it serves as both a source of inspiration and a call for enlightenment and change.
Foreword: The Heart of Servant-Leadership Ken BlanchardixPrefacexiiiIntroduction: Tracing the Past, Present, and Future of Servant-Leadership1Part 1Servant-Leadership and the Individual1Essentials of Servant-Leadership192Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the Twenty-First Century273Servant-Leadership and the Imaginative Life354Leadership as Partnership475Teaching Servant-Leadership536Fannie Lou Hamer, Servant of the People657Servant-Leadership: Three Things Necessary89Part 2Servant-Leadership in the Workplace8Become a Tomorrow Leader1019Servant-Leadership and Rewiring the Corporate Brain11110Servant-Leadership and the Best Companies to Work For in America12311From Hero-as-Leader to Servant-as-Leader14112The Business Case for Servant-Leadership15313On the Right Side of History167Part 3Servant-Leadership in the Community14The Unique Double Servant-Leadership Role of the Board Chair18915Servant-Leadership in Community Colleges21116Servant-Leadership and Philanthropic Institutions22317Foresight: The Lead That the Leader Has24518Servant-Leadership and Creativity25719Table for Six Billion, Please269Part 4Servant-Leadership for the World20Synchronicity and Servant-Leadership28721Servant-Leadership: Leading in Today's Military29522Leadership and the Chaordic Age30523Servant-Leadership, Public Leadership: Wrestling with an American Paradox32124Servant-Leadership and the New Economy33325The Work of the Servant-Leader349Afterword: A Remembrance of Robert K. Greenleaf363Acknowledgments367About the Editors and the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership369Permissions and Copyrights373Recommended Reading377Index381
