The Power of Servant-Leadership

Peter B. Vaill, Robert K. Greenleaf, Spears, Larry C.

ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2014 - Business & Economics - 534 pages

Based on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf, a former AT&T executive who coined the term almost thirty years ago, servant - leadership emphasizes an emerging approach to leadership - one which puts serving others, including employees, customers, and community, first. The Power of Servant Leadership is a collection of eight of Greenleaf's mo...

About the author

Robert K. Greenleaf was the creator of the modern trend to empower employees; he also coined the term servant-leadership. He was a top executive in management research, development, and education and AT&T, as well as a visiting lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. He also taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia. Upon his retirement from AT&T, he founded the Center for Applied Ethics, which eventually became the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, located in Indianapolis. Greenleaf died in 1990 at the age of 86.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Power of Servant-Leadership
• Authors: Peter B. Vaill, Robert K. Greenleaf, Spears, Larry C.
• Editor: Spears, Larry C.
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2014
• ISBN: 1459682572, 9781459682573
• Length: 534 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Leadership; Business & Economics / Management; Religion / Christian Church / Leadership; Social Science / General