Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 15, 2018
Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 15, 2018
Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.
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Great Leadership By Dan
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
It was popularized in modern management writings by Robert Greenleaf in a 1970 essay. Greenleaf was promoting this concept as “the rock upon which a good society is built”. Defining Leadership Let’s begin with an operating definition of leadership. To me it is more of a value system. It is the equivalent of beating a dead horse.
Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Operating environments change rapidly. To be needful, a leader should recognize that executives who have not been on the front lines of their organization for years, cannot have all the answers. We’re near the end of our series on the definition of Servant Leadership through the acronym SERVANT. The only constant is change.
Mark Sanborn
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
Another important leadership theory is Servant Leadership popularized by Robert Greenleaf in the seventies. Be ethical: Act with integrity, honesty, and fairness, and ensure that your organization is operating in an ethical and responsible manner. He also advises executives and professional speakers on how to speak more powerfully.
The Center For Leadership Studies
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Servant leadership is a philosophy that was developed in the early 1970s by Robert Greenleaf. Organizations as entities needed to be structured and to operate in a manner that reversed the flow of communication and responsiveness (communication up, responsiveness down). Servant leadership fundamentally challenged that convention.
Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 29, 2010
Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?” ~ Robert Greenleaf The concept of servant leadership can often seem the antithesis to many organizational cultures, where top-down, command and control are the norm. This is exactly what Robert Greenleaf intended. And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society?
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