Servant Leadership and Love

Kathleen Patterson ()
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Chapter Chapter 6 in Servant Leadership, 2025, pp 99-116 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While often considered mysterious or undefinable, love is a necessity in the choice to serve others; it is the motive that compels the act of serving. This chapter shows how love is the foundational component of servant leadership and how this foundation is a strength of character for the leader. Additionally, this chapter provides an updated perspective on how love and servant leadership are connected with a framework of how love serves as the basis for this relationship; in fact, the servant leadership model cannot operate without love. Also provided is how unlove can negatively impact the leader with outgrowths such as fear, toxicity or bullying towards the follower and in the organization. Insight is shown into how deeply leadership and love are connected, specifically from a virtues framework. Finally a lens is placed over what love and servant leadership can look like in the leader follower relationship.

Keywords: Love; Virtue; Followers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69922-1_6

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