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Servant-leadership is increasingly being recognized as being on the forefront of emerging leadership thinking. It has been responsible for a wide variety of fresh and powerful new ideas-including leadership without hierarchy; organization in a whirlwind of change; community and shared responsibility in a global village; and soul in a free-enterprise world. This important work provides an inspirational collection of twenty-five essays on servant-leadership, with a significant focus on the practice of servant-leadership in organizational and business settings. Readers will find writings by such well-known thinkers on leadership as Warren Bennis, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, and John Bogle. Larry Spears (Indianapolis, IN) is the Chief Executive Officer of The Robert K. Greenleaf Center. Larry Spears is also the editor of Insights on Leadership (Wiley: 0-471-17634-6) and Reflections on Leadership (Wiley: 0-471-03686-2). Michele Lawrence (Indianapolis, IN) has been with the Greenleaf Center since 1993, working in many programmatic capacities, including directing their annual international conference and editing their quarterly newsletter.

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• Foreword: The Heart of Servant-Leadership (K. Blanchard).
• Introduction: Tracing the Past, Present, and Future of Servant-Leadership (L. Spears).
• SERVANT-LEADERSHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL.
• Essentials of Servant-Leadership (R. Greenleaf).
• Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the 21st Century (S. Covey).
• Servant-Leadership and the Imaginative Life (M. Jones).
• Leadership as Partnership (R. Moxley).
• Teaching Servant-Leadership (H. Beazley & J. Beggs).
• Fannie Lou Hamer, Servant of the People (L. Williams).
• Servant-Leadership: Three Things Necessary (M. DePree).
• SERVANT-LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE.
• Become a Tomorrow Leader (W. Bennis).
• Servant-Leadership and Rewiring the Corporate Brain (D. Zohar).
• Servant-Leadership and the Best Companies to Work For (N. Ruschman).
• From Hero-as-Leader to Servant-as-Leader (A. Cooper & D. Trammell).
• The Business Case for Servant-Leadership (J. Showkeir).
• On the Right Side of History (J. Bogle).
• SERVANT-LEADERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY.
• The Unique Double Servant-Leadership Role of the Board Chair (J. Carver).
• Servant-Leadership in Community Colleges (R. Smith & K. Farnsworth).
• Servant-Leadership and Philanthropic Institutions (J. Burkhardt & L. Spears).
• Foresight: The Lead that the Leader Has (D. Young).
• Servant-Leadership and Creativity (T. Freeman, et al.).
• Table for Six Billion, Please (J. Wicks).
• SERVANT-LEADERSHIP FOR THE WORLD.
• Synchronicity and Servant-Leadership (J. Jaworski).
• Servant-Leadership: Leading in Today's Military (R. Braye).
• Leadership and the Chaordic Age (D. Hock).
• Servant-Leadership, Public Leadership: Wrestling with anAmerican Paradox (S. Webster).
• Servant-Leadership and the New Economy (J. Schuster).
• The Work of the Servant-Leader (M. Wheatley).
• Afterword: A Remembrance of Robert K. Greenleaf (L. Spears).
• Acknowledgments.
• About the Editors and the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership.
• Permissions and Copyrights.
• Recommended Reading.
• Index.