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 […]
Organizational Ethics
Class Post. Enjoy! University of Phoenix (n.d.) discussed Blanchard and Peale’s three-question approach; Is it legal?; Is it balanced; can there be a win-win solution?, and is it right? Furthermore, the Rotary International’s four part test for ethical behavior asks: Is it the truth?; Is it fair to all concerned?; Will it build good will […]
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Steinwall (2013) lecture provided an in-depth review of several constructs that are important to leaders, managers, and supervisors. The constructs of optimism, coping, hardiness, hope and helplessness, locus of control, empowerment, emotional intelligence, happiness, and core self-evaluation are important for people who lead, manage, or supervise other people to understand. Leaders, managers, and supervisors, who […]
Productivity, Optimism, Empowerment, and Learned Helplessness
Productivity, Optimism, Empowerment, and Learned Helplessness Week Seven Lecture (Post to class forum) Week Seven lecture was fascinating to me because of my deep interest in optimism, positive psychology, self-transcendence, and flow. I have read many of Csikszentmihalyi’s books and research on flow. What resonates with me is his idea that flow is, “The optimal […]
NPO’s : Stakeholder Management is Relationship Management
Contemporary Systems Management Weekly Reflection. Enjoy! This week we discussed some very interesting topics such as storytelling, stakeholder management, and innovation and creativity. All of these topics are critical to contemporary management systems. I especially like our discussion on storytelling. Storytelling is a part of the human fabric and as such, it is critical to corporations, […]
