Insights on Leadership Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership

by Spears, Larry C.

• ISBN13: 9780471176343
• ISBN10: 0471176346
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-15
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

From INSIGHTS ON LEADERSHIP . . . Robert K. Greenleaf from "The Servant as Leader" "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?" Stephen R. Covey from "Servant-Leadership from the Inside Out" "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." Ken Blanchard from "Servant-Leadership Revisited" "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." INSIGHTS ON LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTORS Stephen R. Covey * Larry C. Spears * Robert K. Greenleaf * Ken Blanchard * Elizabeth Jeffries * Joe Batten * Lawrence J. Lad and David Luechauer * Jack Lowe Jr. * Ann McGee-Cooper * Peter Block * Susana Barciela * John J. Gardiner * Richard P. Nielsen * Jill W. Graham * Bill Bottum with Dorothy Lenz * Robert E. Kelley * Judith A. Sturnick * Parker J. Palmer * Diane Cory * Diane Fassel * Thomas A. Bausch * Christine Wicker * James Conley and Fraya Wagner-Marsh * Joseph Jaworski * John P. Schuster * Ken Melrose * John S. Lore * James A. Autry * Irving R. Stubbs * James M. Kouzes * Jeffrey N. McCollum * Margaret J. Wheatley * Don M. Frick "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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Larry C. Spears
Foreword Servant-Leadership from the Inside Out	xi
Stephen R. Covey
Introduction Tracing the Growing Impact of Servant-Leadership	1	(14)
Larry C. Spears
PART ONE SERVICE	15	(72)
1 Servant-Leadership	15	(6)
Robert K. Greenleaf
2 Servant-Leadership Revisited	21	(8)
Ken Blanchard
3 Work as a Calling	29	(9)
Elizabeth Jeffries
4 Servant-Leadership: A Passion to Serve	38	(16)
Joe Batten
5 On the Path to Servant-Leadership	54	(14)
Lawrence J. Lad
David Luechauer
6 Trust: The Invaluable Asset	68	(9)
Jack Lowe Jr.
7 Accountability as Covenant: The Taproot of Servant-Leadership	77	(10)
Ann McGee-Cooper
PART TWO STEWARDSHIP	87	(110)
8 From Leadership to Citizenship	87	(9)
Peter Block
9 Dharamshala Dreaming: A Traveler's Search for the Meaning of Work	96	(20)
Susana Barciela
10 Quiet Presence: The Holy Ground of Leadership	116	(10)
John J. Gardiner
11 Quaker Foundations for Greenleaf's Servant-Leadership and "Friendly Disentangling" Method	126	(19)
Richard P. Nielsen
12 Servant-Leadership and Enterprise Strategy	145	(12)
Jill W. Graham
13 Within Our Reach: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-first Century	157	(13)
Bill Bottum
Dorothy Lenz
14 Followership in a Leadership World	170	(15)
Robert E. Kelley
15 Healing Leadership	185	(12)
Judith A. Sturnick
PART THREE SPIRIT	197	(74)
16 Leading from Within	197	(12)
Parker J. Palmer
17 The Killing Fields: Institutions and the Death of Our Spirits	209	(7)
Diane Cory
18 Lives in the Balance: The Challenge of Servant-Leaders in a Workaholic Society	216	(14)
Diane Fassel
19 Servant-Leaders Making Human New Models of Work and Organization	230	(16)
Thomas A. Bausch
20 Seeking the Soul of Business	246	(5)
Christine Wicker
21 The Integration of Business Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace	251	(7)
James Conley
Fraya Wagner-Marsh
22 Destiny and the Leader	258	(13)
Joseph Jaworski
PART FOUR SERVANT-LEADERSHIP	271	(82)
23 Servants, Egos, and Shoeshines: A World of Sacramental Possibility	271	(8)
John P. Schuster
24 Putting Servant-Leadership into Practice	279	(18)
Ken Melrose
25 Servant-Leadership in a Christian Organization: The Sisters of St. Joseph Health System	297	(11)
John S. Lore
26 Bearing Witness	308	(6)
James A. Autry
27 A Leverage Force: Reflections on the Impact of Servant-Leadership	314	(8)
Irving R. Stubbs
28 Finding Your Voice	322	(4)
James M. Kouzes
29 The Inside-Out Proposition: Finding (and Keeping) Our Balance in Contemporary Organizations	326	(14)
Jeffrey N. McCollum
30 What Is Our Work?	340	(13)
Margaret J. Wheatley
Afterword Understanding Robert K. Greenleaf and Servant-Leadership	353	(6)
Don M. Frick
Acknowledgments	359	(2)
About the Editor and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership	361	(2)
Notes	363	(14)
Permissions and Copyrights	377	(4)
Recommended Reading	381	(4)
Index	385