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Based on the seminal work of Robert K. Greenleaf, a former AT&T executive who coined the term almost thirty years ago, servant-leadership emphasizes an emerging approach to leadership-one which puts serving others, including employees, customers, and community, first.

The Power of Servant Leadership is a collection of eight of Greenleaf's most compelling essays on servant-leadership. These essays, published together in one volume for the first time, contain many of Greenleaf's best insights into the nature and practice of servant-leadership and show his continual refinement of the servant-as-leader concept. In addition, several of the essays focus on the related issues of spirit, commitment to vision, and wholeness.

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Greenleaf (1904-90) was a man ahead of his time, and his work has had a profound impact on the field of management. The classic Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (1977) collected a set of his essays written from 1970 to 1977. He basically turned the idea of leadership upside down, asserting that instead of leaders being in command of others, they are here to serve the common good. Servant-leadership is a significant concept in recent best-selling management books such as Peter Block's Stewardship: Choosing Service over Self-Interest (CH, Mar'94) and Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal's Leading with Soul (1995). The volume under review collects Greenleaf's final writings on servant-leadership. Eight essays cover a range of topics, as a sampling of titles indicate: "The Leadership Crisis," "The Servant-Leader as Religious Leader," and "Old Age: The Ultimate Test of Spirit." The primary focus of each essay is on service to something greater than oneself. Despite the gentleness and quiet intellectual strength of Greenleaf's writing style, the ideas he presented about leadership, purpose, self-development, and the growth of institutions are quite radical and inspirational. Highly recommended for all library collections. J. A. Neal; University of New Haven

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Robert K. Greenleaf was the creator of the modern trend to empower employees; he also coined the term servant-leadership. He was a top executive in management research, development, and education and AT&T, as well as a visiting lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. He also taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia. Upon his retirement from AT&T, he founded the Center for Applied Ethics, which eventually became the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, located in Indianapolis. Greenleaf died in 1990 at the age of 86.