Servant Leadership
A review of

Servant Leadership

A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (25th Anniversary Edition)

Robert K. Greenleaf and Larry C. Spears • Paulist Press • 2002

Lead To Serve

by David Meyer

Robert K. Greenleaf, the founder of the servant leadership movement, began the movement with this seminal text, published in 1977. It remains powerful, relevant, true and wholly useful.

According to the late Robert K. Greenleaf, founder of the servant leader movement, leaders don’t have to be coercive, manipulative or unpleasant. Though Greenleaf wrote parts of this seminal guidebook decades ago, his ideas and literary references are still potent and influential.

Servants

German-Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) formalized the concept of servant leadership. He believed the fusion of servant and leader embodies the ancient concept of leaders who serve others.

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