Servant Leadership and Systems Thinking (Pillar VI)
When you look at anything or consider anything, look at it as “a whole” as much as you can before you swing on it” ~Robert Greenleaf James Sipe and Don Frick discuss the seven characteristics of servant leadership in their book, Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership: Practicing the Wisdom of Leading by Serving. Since I […]
Servant Leadership: Humility, Confidence, and Crucible Moments
I just recently enrolled in a certification class with the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, Key Practices of Servant Leadership 2.0. Our first book, Start with Humility: Lessons from America’s Quiet CEO’s on How to Build Trust and Inspire Followers by Merwyn Hayes and Michael Comer is fascinating! The reading centers on humility and leadership, […]
Servant Leadership at Work
Robert K. Greenleaf’s research centered on the notion of servant leadership through his writings, his life, and his work. One of his books, The Servant as Leader was an introduction of servant leadership that came through his work at AT&T. Greenleaf initially started at AT&T as a lineman digging postholes and retired in 1964 as […]
Self-Transcendence and Servant Leadership Behavior Study
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The four-year study on self-transcendence and servant leadership has been completed. The results, although positive, showed that we as an organization have work to do. In the coming blog posts, I will write about the results and the implications of those results for our organization. Today, I post the abstract. Next […]
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 210 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]
What is Servant Leadership?
For three decades, servant leadership was an explored philosophy used as a leadership style for organizations in the business industry, the education sector, and in various church denominations. The seminal works of Robert K. Greenleaf established servant leadership in 1977. Over 30 years later, the definition of servant leadership comes from a different perspective than […]
Servant Leadership – Robert K. Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf advanced the servant leadership through his writings, his life, and his work. Greenleaf espoused his ideology about servant leadership through his work The Servant as Leader. Robert Greenleaf‘s (1904-1990) introduction of servant leadership came through his work at AT&T. Greenleaf initially started at AT&T as a lineman digging postholes and retired in […]
Sacred Service: Volunteers Create Value
Volunteers in nonprofit organizations need to be heard and valued. Here are five things you can do to inspire and support your sacred servers: 1. Succession leadership is necessary for your lead volunteers. Volunteers who are in leadership positions must not be so important to the organization that if they leave, the organization is at […]
Theory U: What is Presencing?
Class Post. Enjoy! What is presencing? How might presencing help leaders operate from the future seeking to emerge, instead of learning from the past? Presencing is the act of connecting to the source of inspiration and will. It allows for the individual or group to go to the place of silence and allow the inner knowing […]
SERVANT LEADERSHIP IN CENTERS FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PART 2
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 This post is part 2 of Crystal Davis’ guest blog based on her dissertation on Servant Leadership in a spiritual organization. Ms. Davis is passionately engaged in Servant Leadership and selfless service to the nonprofit and public sectors having served both large and small organizations throughout her career and her consulting […]
