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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

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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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

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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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

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It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership. In his new book, The Relationship Economy: Building Stronger Customer Connections in the Digital Age (Greenleaf, Oct. Learn more at thedijuliusgroup.com.

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Five Ways to Disarm an Angry Mob | Aspire-CS

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» Five Ways to Disarm an Angry Mob August 1st, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Many years ago, as an inexperienced young woman working in corporate benefits, I did not have the skills to give a group of angry employees a presentation on a life insurance benefit that was changing.

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Infectious Optimism

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The intake process was ridiculously slow (why did they have to copy my insurance card and license when they’d just done so less than a month ago?). Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. What choice did I have but to wait?