Servant-leadership has prompted powerful and fresh ideas: leadership without hierarchy, organization in a whirlwind of change; community and shared responsibility in a global village; soul in a free-enterprise world. This book is a collection of 25 essays on servant-leadership, with a significant focus on the practice of servant-leadership in organizational and business settings. The book features writings by such well-known thinkers on leadership as Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, and John Bogle.
Book Details:
- Author: Larry C. Spears
- ISBN: 9780470193075
- Year Published: 2002
- Pages: 416
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
Servant-leadership has prompted powerful and fresh ideas: leadership without hierarchy, organization in a whirlwind of change; community and shared responsibility in a global village; soul in a free-enterprise world. This book is a collection of 25 essays on servant-leadership, with a significant focus on the practice of servant-leadership in organizational and business settings. The book features writings by such well-known thinkers on leadership as Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, and John Bogle.
Servant-leadership is increasingly being recognized as being on the forefront of emerging leadership thinking, and this book has a strong contributor list and the enthusiastic backing of the Robert K. Greenleaf Center.
Includes writings by Max DePree, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, John Bogle, and Warren Bennis. * Reveals the powerful and fresh ideas that servant-leadership has given birth to, including leadership without hierarchy, organization in a whirlwind of change, and community and shared responsibility in a global village.
About the Author
LARRY C. SPEARS is the Chief Executive Officer of The Robert K. Greenleaf Center, which was founded in 1969 and originally called the Center for Applied Ethics. The Center’s mission is to carry the message of servant-leadership originated by Greenleaf, who was the Director of Management Research at AT&T, where he worked for thirty-eight years. Mr. Spears is also the editor of Insights on Leadership and Reflections on Leadership (both from Wiley). MICHELE LAWRENCE has been with the Greenleaf Center since 1993, working in many programmatic capacities, including directing their annual international conference and editing their quarterly newsletter.