 |
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.
|
|
Margaret Wheatley
Here are comments from other authors regarding Robert K. Greenleaf and servant leadership:
Margaret Wheatley gave a talk on “The Work of the Servant Leader” at the 1999 conference. In her talk, which was published in Focus on Leadership, she said:
"There are many patterns, many beliefs, out there about leadership, about people, about motivation, about human development. The essential truth I’m discovering right now is that when we are together, more becomes possible. When we are together, joy is available. In the midst of a world that is insane, that will continue to surprise us with new outrages…in the midst of that future, the gift is each other. We have lived with a belief system that has not told us that. We have lived with a belief that has said, ‘We’re in it for ourselves. It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Only the strong survive and you can’t trust anybody.’ That’s the belief that’s operating in most organizations if you scratch the surface. The belief that called you to be a servant-leader, I believe, is the belief of who we are as a species. We have need for each other. We have a desire for each other, and, more and more, I believe that if the real work is to stay together, then we are not only the best resource to move into this future—we are the only resource….We need to learn how to be together: that is the essential work of the servant-leader."
|
|
