 Servant Leadership and Robert K. Greenleaf’s LegacyLarry C. Spears ()
Chapter Chapter 2 in Servant Leadership, 2025, pp 15-35 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter comprehensively summarizes some of the significant attributes of servant leadership and its growing influence as a global philosophy and practice. It provides insights into servant leadership at many levels to illustrate the breadth and depth of the servant-as-leader concept. It contains background information on Robert K. Greenleaf, the servant-leader concept, my calling in servant leadership and connections to Robert Greenleaf, a review of some of the characteristics of servant-leaders, and an examination of some of the practices of servant leadership. It may be considered a distillation of my experiences and reflections from forty years as a writer-editor, teacher, and organizational executive in servant leadership. Throughout these many years, my foundational understanding of servant leadership has remained the same as Robert K. Greenleaf’s: The servant-leader is servant first and the best test of a servant-leader: Is one healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to serve others? And what is the impact on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or at least, not be further deprived? Keywords: Characteristics; Robert K. Greenleaf; Servant-Leader (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-69922-1_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69922-1_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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