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How To Be A Servant Leader

Eric Jacobson

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders. Maxwell writes: " When you become a leader, you give up your right to think of yourself first.

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What Servant Leaders Know

Mark Sanborn

An audience member recently asked me, “What is the biggest change you’ve seen in leadership in the past 30 years?”. The biggest change I’ve seen isn’t in leadership,” I replied. When was the last time you heard someone say, “I’m a follower” or “I follow my leader”? Managers believed they could and should do the thinking.

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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. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13.

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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. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13.

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Women Are Natural Servant Leaders, But Need Encouragement To Take On The Role

The Horizons Tracker

It explores the topic of servant leadership, and who might be best at delivering it. Servant leadership has come a long way since Robert Greenleaf first popularized the term in the 1970s, and while it’s probably fair to say it is still not the predominant view of how leaders should be, it is growing in popularity.

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Servant Leadership Revisited

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from William Dann: The concept of servant leadership was introduced by Ancient Chinese philosophers such as Lao-Tzu, then found in the Christian teachings of Mark. It was popularized in modern management writings by Robert Greenleaf in a 1970 essay. In that context, servant leadership works.

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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. Suffice to say, when servant leadership was unveiled, it caused quite a stir. It caused that stir because it challenged conventional thinking regarding the role of leaders. What “made them tick” as human beings?