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Are Servant Leaders Obsolete?

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In 1964 he took an early retirement to found the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Today, Greenleaf’s servant leadership can be found in the work of authors and educators like Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, Jack Zenger, and Warren Bennis. In short, servant leadership is taking care of the “other.”

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Focus on the Journey, Not the Destination

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The article, titled, “Beam Me Up Scotty,” talks about me being too focused on my own career — causing me to miss an opportunity to learn from my boss, who was a very quiet, humble servant leader. I was in my late 20s at the time and thought I was a good leader. I spent most of my career as a power leader.