Persuasive Powerhouse
JANUARY 10, 2011
Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.
Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
This means being a leader even when nobody’s watching and valuing everyone – especially those who may not have something to offer that benefits you or your career. Spears, Larry: Power of Servant Leaders (Greenleaf, Spears, 1998); Servant Leadership: A Journey into… (Greenleaf, Spears, 2002); and more.
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Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Among my favorite lessons from Robert Greenleaf is the one on “Primus Inter Pares” This is Latin for, “ First Among Equals “ The point is, if someone is an expert on a topic, they may be better to lead a discussion or decision on that topic, than the chief executive. References : 1. Sipe, James W. &
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 15, 2018
Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.
Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 29, 2010
Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?” ~ Robert Greenleaf The concept of servant leadership can often seem the antithesis to many organizational cultures, where top-down, command and control are the norm. This is exactly what Robert Greenleaf intended. And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society?
Modern Servant Leader
OCTOBER 9, 2012
As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. One of the texts was Robert Greenleaf’s booklet The Servant Leader. Then I read the book by Herman Hesse, Journey to the East, which is where Greenleaf first got his ideal of Servant Leadership. Why do you advocate Servant Leadership?
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2018
That experience has led him to write Connecting the Dots as a way to help others to learn from the key events in his life and career as they navigate business and life. Donaldson with Karl Weber (Greenleaf Book Group, 2018) Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.
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