Practicing Servant-Leadership: Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery, and Forgiveness / Edition 1

by Larry C. Spears, Michele Lawrence

Overview

Practicing Servant-Leadership brings together a group of exceptional thinkers who offer a compendium of thought on the topic of bringing servant-leadership into the daily lives of leaders. Each contributor focuses on his or her area of expertise, exploring how servant-leadership works in the real world, using examples from a variety of organizations such as businesses, nonprofits, churches, schools, foundations, and leadership organizations. Highlights of the book's twelve essays include information on:

• how the idealistic vision of the servant as leader works even in the competitive world of business.
• encouraging leaders to begin by looking at what they themselves want to become and then to bring this knowledge into their daily leadership.
• how the principles of servant-leadership can enhance our understanding and practice of philanthropy.
• examining the board chairperson's especially vital role as a servant- leader.
• exploring what leaders learn from being followers.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787974558
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/04/2004
Series:	Jossey-Bass Leadership Series , #215
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.17(d)

About the Author

Larry C. Spears is president and CEO of the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership. Spears is the former managing director of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, a cooperative association of twelve colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including On Becoming a Servant-Leader, Reflections on Leadership, and Seeker and Servant from Jossey-Bass.

Michele Lawrence directs the annual international conference for the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and acts as editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Servant-Leader. Together with Spears, she is coeditor of Focus on Leadership from John Wiley & Sons.

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Table of Contents

Foreword: Why Servant-Leadership Matters (Warren Bennis).

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

The Editors and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership.

The Contributors.

1. Who Is the Servant-Leader? (Robert K. Greenleaf).

2. The Understanding and Practice of Servant-Leadership (Larry C. Spears).

3. The Unique Double Servant-Leadership Role of the Board Chairperson (John Carver).

4. Love and Work
A Conversation with James A. Autry.

5. Servant-Leadership and Philanthropic Institutions (John C. Burkhardt, Larry C. Spears).

6. On the Right Side of History (John C. Bogle).

7. Anatomy of a Collaboration: An Act of Servant-Leadership (Wendell J.Walls).

8. Servant-Leadership Characteristics in Organizational Life (Don DeGraaf, Colin Tilley, Larry Neal).

9. Toward a Theology of Institutions (David L. Specht with Richard R. Broholm).

10. Foresight as the Central Ethic of Leadership (Daniel H. Kim).

11. Servant-Leadership, Forgiveness, and Social Justice (Shann R. Ferch).

12. The Servant-Leader: From Hero to Host
An Interview with Margaret J. Wheatley.

Endnotes.

Recommended Reading.

Index.