The Servant Leadership Journal

The Buzz on The Power of Servant-Leadership - Robert KGreenleaf - Scribd

Because Robert K. Greenleaf composed his influential essay, The Servant as Leader, the servant management movement has actually increased from obscurity to the really principles of how the most effective business on earth operate and benefit. Roughly one-third of those business are regularly featured in Fortune magazine's annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for having high trust, high staff member engagement, and low turnover.

To track the movement in published format over the previous three decades, I dug around my own library and a number of web resources, plus the favorites of idea leaders, execs, authors, and academics to identify which books they feel have had one of the most effect on advancing the servant leadership movement. 15 Best and Most Popular Servant Leadership Books of All Time, While my original list continues to expand as the motion grows, for this entry (and for the sake of blogging length), I'm narrowing it down to 15 noteworthy books that would interest the mainstream, and anyone looking for his or her first immersion into servant management.

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Lots of below are quite popular, often suggested, and referenced in other books and the literature. Author: Ken Melrose, Date: 1995Summary: Melrose, the former CEO of Toro Motor Business, gives us a within appearance at how servant management became the driver for turning the company around. Author: James Hunter, Date: 1998Summary: A great book for newbies on their immersion into servant leadership.

To get his life back on track, he reluctantly goes to a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery, where he finds the life-changing principles of servant management. Author: Jim Collins, Date: 2001Summary: This influential classic needs to be in everybody's book case.  Solution Can Be Seen Here  when confessed that his personnel challenged the concept of calling his book by a servant leadership title, so he opted for Excellent to Great.

The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle by James CHunter:  9781578569755 - PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Servant Leadership Book - The Crossroad for Dummies

Author: Robert K. Greenleaf (modified by Larry C. Spears)Date: 2002Summary: The 25th anniversary edition of this ground-breaking 1977 book consists of all of Greenleaf's timeless text and central ideas as explained in the very first 3 essays that he wrote: "The Servant as Leader," "The Institution as Servant," and "Trustees as Servants." A must-have for trainees and diehards of the movement, however I don't recommend it as your very first choice if you're at the beginner level.