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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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Leading in a Time of Crisis – Top Tips from Dozens of Practitioners

Modern Servant Leader

Among these are 1) sincere interest in others, 2) self-knowledge, 3) reflection, 4) humility, 5) willingness to work in teams, 6) social responsibility, 7) ability to create an important dream and hope, 8) ability to foresee patterns and 9) skills to make decisions based on observations and best knowledge.

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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. What are the 8 skills? This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers.

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What Servant Leaders Know

Mark Sanborn

Employees today think of themselves much differently, despite how managers and leaders think and talk about those on their team. They recognize their relationship to a manager on the org chart, but think of that as only a line of authority. Robert Greenleaf coined the term “servant leadership” in the 1960s.

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The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership®

The Center For Leadership Studies

Servant leadership is a philosophy that was developed in the early 1970s by Robert Greenleaf. The post The Inherent Synergies Between Servant Leadership and Situational Leadership<sup>®</sup> appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.

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How a Sales Manager Can Think Like a Leader

Strategy Driven

Almost every sales manager was, at one point in their career, a peak-performing sales professional, top dog on the team. This presents a problem because managing and leading a sales team requires a completely different mindset from selling. But sales managers are not put in the job to keep selling. Not so fast.