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Greenleaf News & Events
The Greenleaf Center's 18th Annual International Conference will be held June 5-7, 2008 at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis.
New in the Catalog
The Case for Servant Leadership by Dr. Kent M. Keith, Greenleaf Center CEO, is now available. The 85-page book cites the universal importance of service, defines servant leadership, compares the power model of leadership with the service model, describes some key practices of servant-leaders, and explores the meaningful lives of servant-leaders. To buy copies of the book, click here.
Servant leader Howard Behar has written a book about the leadership principles that he used to build Starbucks. The Greenleaf Center is grateful to Mr. Behar for donating half the royalties to the Center. To buy copies of his book, click here.
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Mission
The Center's mission is to fundamentally improve the caring and quality of all institutions through servant leadership, which emphasizes:
- increased service to others
- a holistic approach to work
- promoting a sense of community, and
- sharing power in decision making.
The Center's activities are designed to:
- Raise institutional and individual awareness of Servant Leadership and deepen the understanding and practice of it.
- Recognize servant-leaders and create a larger base of caring people from which Servant Leadership can arise.
- Affirm and encourage servant-leaders.
- Enhance the understanding and practice of moral persuasion toward societal and organizational transformation, following the methodologies of exemplary servant-leaders.
- Collaborate with and learn from individuals and institutions, including institutions which serve diverse communities and whose values are consistent with Servant Leadership.
- Demonstrate by visible and tangible results our commitment to the comprehensive integration of diversity and inclusion, including institutions that serve diverse communities into Greenleaf Center's activities.
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