Servant Leadership

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"Robert K. Greenleaf's wisdom has inspired us for over 25 years. It is my fervent hope that this most welcome new edition of Servant Leadership will influence a new generation worldwide to transform global capitalism and serve better the whole of humanity and our planet." Godric Ernest Scott Bader Life President, Scott Bader Commonwealth, Ltd.
"Servant leadership is now part of the vocabulary of enlightened leadership. Bob Greenleaf, along with other notables [has] created a new thoughtworld of leadership that contains such virtues as growth, responsibility and love.This book incarnated those values." Warren Bennis Author of Organizing Genius
"Greenleaf's timeless wisdom provides a beacon that will light the way for creating an enterprise that stands for something: a distinguished serving institution that is at once successful and principled." John Bogle
Founder and Chairman Emeritus,The Vanguard Group
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Fülszöveg

More than 100,000 copies sold!
"Robert K. Greenleaf's wisdom has inspired us for over 25 years. It is my fervent hope that this most welcome new edition of Servant Leadership will influence a new generation worldwide to transform global capitalism and serve better the whole of humanity and our planet." Godric Ernest Scott Bader Life President, Scott Bader Commonwealth, Ltd.
"Servant leadership is now part of the vocabulary of enlightened leadership. Bob Greenleaf, along with other notables [has] created a new thoughtworld of leadership that contains such virtues as growth, responsibility and love.This book incarnated those values." Warren Bennis Author of Organizing Genius
"Greenleaf's timeless wisdom provides a beacon that will light the way for creating an enterprise that stands for something: a distinguished serving institution that is at once successful and principled." John Bogle
Founder and Chairman Emeritus,The Vanguard Group
/'Servant Leadership belongs in every leader's library. It is the indispensable companion for the journey."
Frances Hesselbein, Chairman,The Drucker Foundation
"In the midst of seemingly unrestrained and individualized materialism, Greenleaf's sense of civil community as a preserving principle of the free market is still our best hope."
Max DePree, Author of Leadership Is an Art
"I am convinced that responsible board behavior is impossible in the absence of the servant leadership Robert Greenleaf helped us all to understand."
John Carver
Author of Boards That Make a Difference

With the publication of Servant Leadership in 1977, a new paradigm of management entered the boardrooms and corporate offices of America. Robert K. Greenleaf, a retired ATT executive, proposed that service ought to be the distinguishing characteristic of leadership. Not only would it create better, stronger companies, he said, but business leaders themselves "would find greater joy in their lives if they raised the servant aspect of their leadership and built more serving institutions."
In the quarter century since these ideas were first articulated, the notion of servant leadership has gained ever more disciples in business schools, among executives, in government and in public and private institutions. Greenleaf was among the first to analyze the qualities of leaders and followers—and the necessity for leaders to be attentive to the needs of others. In this respect the leader becomes a follower. Such a leader, said Greenleaf, constantly inquires whether "other people's highest priority needs are being served. Do those served grow as persons! Do they, v/hile being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?"
The true leader is also a seeker—alert to new possibilities, open, listening and ready for whatever develops. True leadership, then, is an inner quality as much as an exercise of authority.
The present volume originated as essays and talks treating servant leadership as a general principle and the way it has been lived by particular people. Sections of the book deal with leadership in education, in foundations, in churches, in bureaucracies, and with the role of the United States as a world leader. It closes with a spiritual reflection on Robert Frost's poem "Directive." The reflection, in Greenleaf's words, is "partly an acknowledgment of [Frost's] influence on me and partly a sharing with those who are on the search for what 1 have now come to see as servant leadership, and who, sooner or later and in their own way, come to grips with who they are and where they are on the journey." Vissza