About the Book:-
Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, Oct 1997
ISBN-13: 9780471176343
ISBN: 0471176346
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Table of Contents:-
Preface
Foreword: Servant-Leadership from the Inside Out
Introduction: Tracing the Growing Impact of Servant-Leadership
1 Servant-Leadership
2 Servant-Leadership Revisited
3 Work as a Calling
4 Servant-Leadership: A Passion to Serve
5 On the Path to Servant-Leadership
6 Trust: The Invaluable Asset
7 Accountability as Covenant: The Taproot of Servant-Leadership
8 From Leadership to Citizenship
9 Dharamshala Dreaming: A Traveler's Search for the Meaning of Work
10 Quiet Presence: The Holy Ground of Leadership
11 Quaker Foundations for Greenleaf's Servant-Leadership and "Friendly Disentangling" Method
12 Servant-Leadership and Enterprise Strategy
13 Within Our Reach: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-first Century
14 Followership in a Leadership World
15 Healing Leadership
16 Leading from Within
17 The Killing Fields: Institutions and the Death of Our Spirits
18 Lives in the Balance: The Challenge of Servant-Leaders in a Workaholic Society
19 Servant-Leaders Making Human New Models of Work and Organization
20 Seeking the Soul of Business
21 The Integration of Business Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace
22 Destiny and the Leader
23 Servants, Egos, and Shoeshines: A World of Sacramental Possibility
24 Putting Servant-Leadership into Practice
25 Servant-Leadership in a Christian Organization: The Sisters of St. Joseph Health System
26 Bearing Witness
27 A Leverage Force: Reflections on the Impact of Servant-Leadership
28 Finding Your Voice
29 The Inside-Out Proposition: Finding (and Keeping) Our Balance in Contemporary Organizations
30 What Is Our Work?
Afterword: Understanding Robert K. Greenleaf and Servant-Leadership
Acknowledgments
About the Editor and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership
Notes
Permissions and Copyrights
Recommended Reading
Index
Synopsis (1997)
"It is one of the great ironies of our age that we created organizations to constrain our problematic human natures, and now the only thing that can save these organizations is a full appreciation of the expansive capacities of us humans." -Margaret J. Wheatley from "What Is Our Work?" Leadership without hierarchy? Organization in a whirlwind of change? Community and shared responsibility in a global village? Soul in a free-enterprise world? Robert Greenleaf's visionary theory of Servant-Leadership continues to engage many of the best minds in and out of business. Greenleaf's prescriptions for employee empowerment and organizational change continue to achieve nothing short of miraculous results in organizations worldwide. As one enthusiastic observer wrote in Fortune magazine. "Once the consensus is forged. watch out: With everybody on board. your so-called implementation proceeds 'wham-bam.'" In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Reflections on Leadership. many of today's most respected business thinkers share their insights into key aspects of Robert Greenleaf's revolutionary thinking. Over the course of 33 essays, a dream team consisting of such luminaries as Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Block, Margaret Wheatley, John Schuster, and James Autry explore how Greenleaf has influenced today's business leaders and discuss a range of leadership principles at the heart of his philosophy. including stewardship, the spirit of the workplace, and the concept of healing leadership. A source of inspiration and instruction. Insights on Leadership is required reading for senior executives, community leaders, and managers in for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
About the Author
Larry C. Spears has been Executive Director of The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership since 1990. He is also a writer, editor, and speaker who has published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews. Mr. Spears is the editor of the acclaimed Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf's Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today's Top Management Thinkers (Wiley) and coeditor of On Becoming a Servant-Leader and Seeker and Servant.
