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Larry C. Spears (Editor) Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership Buy this title or join our Management Literature Club and have a chance to GET IT FREE! |
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This is a sequel to Reflections on Leadership, which provided an anthology of writing about Robert Greenleaf's ideas on servant-leadership and their influence on top business leaders. This book is a collection of essays on leadership, servant-leadership, and the idea of leading with "soul." "The servant-leader is servant first. Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.... The best test is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?" -- Robert K. Greenleaf from The Servant as Leader. "You may be able to buy someone's hand and back, but you cannot buy their heart, mind, and spirit. And in the competitive reality of today's global marketplace, it will be only those organizations whose people not only willingly volunteer their tremendous creative talent, commitment, and loyalty, but whose organizations align their structures, systems, and management style to support the empowerment of their people that will survive and thrive as market leaders." -- Stephen R. Covey from Servant-Leadership from the Inside Out. "With the traditional pyramid, the boss is always responsible and the staff are supposed to be responsive to the boss. When you turn the pyramid upside down, those roles get reversed. Your people become responsible and the job of management is to be responsive to their people. That creates a very different environment for implementation. If you work for your people, then what is the purpose of being a manager? To help them accomplish their goals. Your job is to help them win." -- Ken Blanchard from Servant-Leadership Revisited.
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