Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First CenturyThis collection of inspiring essays focuses on the practice of servant-leadership in organizational and business settings. Focus on Leadership addresses how servant-leadership is now increasingly recognized as being on the forefront of emerging leadership thinking. This book features a Foreword by Ken Blanchard as well as writing from: Hamilton Beazley * Julie Beggs * Warren Bennis * Ken Blanchard * John C. Bogle * Rubye Howard Braye * John Burkhardt * John Carver * Stephen R. Covey * Max DePree * K. Brian Dorval * Kent A. Farnsworth * Tamyra L. Freeman * Robert K. Greenleaf * Dee Hock * Scott G. Isaksen * Joseph Jaworski * Michael Jones * Ann McGee-Cooper * Russ S. Moxley * Nancy Larner Ruschman * John P. Schuster * James D. Showkeir * Ruth Mercedes Smith * Larry C. Spears * Duane Trammell * David S. Young * Scott W. Webster * Margaret Wheatley * Judy Wicks * Lea E. Williams * Danah Zohar |
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Índice
| 1 | |
Part One ServantLeadership and the Individual | 17 |
Part Two ServantLeadership in the Workplace | 99 |
Part Three ServantLeadership in the Community | 187 |
Part Four ServantLeadership for the World | 285 |
Afterword A Remembrance of Robert K Greenleaf | 363 |
Acknowledgments | 367 |
About the Editors and the Greenleaf Center for ServantLeadership | 369 |
| 373 | |
Recommended Reading | 377 |
| 381 | |
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Página 4 - The servant-leader is servant first. ... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead.
Página xi - You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Página 7 - ... balance between conceptual thinking and a day-to-day focused approach. 7. Foresight. Closely related to conceptualization, the ability to foresee the likely outcome of a situation is hard to define but easy to identify. One knows it when one sees it. Foresight is a characteristic that enables the servant-leader to understand the lessons from the past, the realities of the present, and the likely consequence of a decision for the future. It is also deeply rooted within the intuitive mind.
Página 6 - Awareness is not a giver of solace — it is just the opposite. It is a disturber and an awakener. Able leaders are usually sharply awake and reasonably disturbed. They are not seekers after solace. They have their own inner serenity." 5. Persuasion: Another characteristic of servant-leaders is a reliance on persuasion, rather than on one's positional authority, in making decisions within an organization. The servant-leader seeks to convince others, rather than coerce compliance. This particular...
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century |
| Editores | Larry C. Spears, Michele Lawrence |
| Editor | John Wiley & Sons, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0471171190, 9780471171195 |
| N.º de páginas | 416 páginas |
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