Robert K. Greenleaf A Life of Servant Leadership

by Frick, Don M.

• ISBN13: 9781576752760
• ISBN10: 1576752763
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-13
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Since the publication of his first essay The Servant as Leader in 1970, Robert Greenleaf's writings on servant- leadership have powerfully influenced management training, education and evaluation, experiential learning, organizational development, seminary education, foundation work, religious missions and practice, corporate ethics, trusteeship and a dozen other fields in profit, non-profit and government organizations; and that influence is growing. Since Greenleaf's death in 1990, new volumes of his writing and scores of books on the ideas and applications of servant-leadership have been published. In spite of all the interest, this is the first biography of the man who first lived the servant- leader philosophy, created the term and applied it to management and organizations. This book is authorized by Greenleaf's surviving children.

Author Biography

Don M. Frick co-edited the book On Becoming a Servant Leader and contributed chapters to other books on the subject of servant leadership. He brings Robert K. Greenleaf to life through his eclectic studies in communications, theology, leadership, psychology, history and ethics -- and his experience as an independent writer, trainer, consultant to some of America's major corporations, college teacher, former part-time employee of the Greenleaf Center in Indianapolis, on-air talent, and media producer with over 250 radio, television, and corporate scripts to his credit

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xix
Introduction	1	(10)
PART I Servant: 1904--1926	11	(70)
Breakthrough to a Paradox	13	(4)
First Light	17	(10)
George Greenleaf: Community Steward	27	(13)
Religious and Hoosier Heritages	40	(15)
Awe of the Stars	55	(10)
A Willingness to Venture	65	(16)
PART II Seeker: 1926--1964	81	(168)
Adventure in Spirit	83	(11)
Crash and Rush	94	(15)
A Passion for Learning	109	(16)
Openings and Convincement: The Quaker Way	125	(15)
Quaker at War	140	(10)
Researcher and Teacher	150	(22)
Meetings With Remarkable People	172	(31)
Crisis of Questions	203	(15)
Husband and Father	218	(11)
Breakout From AT&T	229	(20)
PART III Leader: 1964--1990	249	(72)
New Skin for New Wine	251	(21)
The Servant Series	272	(25)
Back to Spirit	297	(13)
Twilight	310	(11)
Afterword	321	(16)
Appendices	337	(20)
Notes	357	(46)
Bibliography	403	(14)
Index	417	(14)
About the Author	431