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Interview with David McCuistion of Vanguard Organizational Leadership (VOL)

Modern Servant Leader

As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. One of the texts was Robert Greenleaf’s booklet The Servant Leader. Then I read the book by Herman Hesse, Journey to the East, which is where Greenleaf first got his ideal of Servant Leadership. Why do you advocate Servant Leadership?

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Lowell, Massachusetts, was the Silicon Valley of its day, and the textile mills of Lowell recruited bright young women by offering them something like a college experience: the mill owners funded schools, lecture series, a library, and cultural events. After the Civil War, the market for skilled textile workers became very active.