Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewMeet the man whose work influenced some of the world's most prominent business leaders and spawned a worldwide movement that is still gaining strength today. Robert Greenleaf's landmark 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader, introduced the now common term servant leadership to the world. His work has been cited by leading writers and business people including Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block and led to the development of Centers for Servant Leadership around the world. This long-awaited biography of Robert Greenleaf, authorized by his surviving children, finally tells his story. Drawn from Greenleaf's personal papers, correspondence, and interviews with family and friends, it provides a fascinating look at the sources of Greenleaf's thought, his friendships with some of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century-including Eleanor Roosevelt, Peter Drucker, the Menninger brothers, Reinhold Niebuhr, Aldous Huxley, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson, and many others-and how he influenced business history well before his first book was published at the age of seventy-three. At a time when leadership and management fads substitute as wisdom, Robert Greenleaf's life stories provide clues for how each person can make a difference in the workplace, no matter what position he or she holds. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frick , Peter M. Senge , Larry C. SpearsPublisher: Berrett-Koehler Imprint: Berrett-Koehler Dimensions: Width: 6.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 9.50cm Weight: 0.002kg ISBN: 9781576752760ISBN 10: 1576752763 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 13 June 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Reading under Ethics 1 Writing as an Intentional Act 2 Reading as an Intentional Act 3 The Author's Voice and the Reader's Ethics 4 Assumptions, Implications, and Method 2 Communication: Ordinary and Literary 1 Ordinary Communication 2 Narrative Communication: Authors 3 Literary Communication: Readers 4 Literary Communication: Authors and Readers 5 Disjunctions: When Communication Fails 6 Summary 3 Locating the Text 1 An Overview 2 A Two-Self Reading System 3 Locating the Text 4 Identifying the Intended Audience 5 Characterizing Otherness 6 Summary 4 Entering the Storyworld 1 What is Narrative? 2 An Introduction to Identification 3 Identification and Character Construction 4 Identification and Attachment 5 Identification and Investment 6 Identification and Commitment 7 Summary 5 Many Characters, Many Perspectives 1 Strategies for Identification 2 Engaging Other Characters 3 Interest Bias and Evaluative Standard 4 Summary 6 Experiencing the Event 1 Mental Simulations and Serious Meaning 2 The Reading-Self and Modal Realism 3 The Actual-Self and Moderate Realism 4 The Experience of Event: Letters to Words 5 The Experience of Event: Words to Sentences 6 The Experience of Event: Beyond Sentences 7 Summary 7 Translating Story-Meaning 1 Communicating Meaning 2 Translating Meaning: Loyalty 3 Translating Meaning: Equivalence and Similarity 4 Translating Meaning: Relevance 5 Evaluating Validity: the Effects of Moderate Realism 6 Summary 8 Markan Examples 1 The Call of Levi (Mk. 2:14) 2 Storm at Sea (Mk. 4:35-41) 3 The Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mk. 5:25-34) 4 The Parable of the Sower (Mk. 4:3-20) 5 The Darkening of the Sun and Moon (Mk. 13:24-26) Bibliography IndexReviewsGreenleaf's life reads like an adventure novel--an adventure in ideas, people and spirit. Organic gardener, painter, astronomer, jeweler, researcher, master craftsman, philosopher, trusted consultant to key leaders in business, education, philanthropy and religion, Bob Greenleaf fulfills the classic description of genius. An avid seeker of deeper insights into human potential, growth, and a kind of leadership that encourages the creation of great places to work, extraordinary teamwork, productivity and joy in work, Greenleaf's insights into leadership open new possibilities for all of us. --Ann McGee-Cooper, Owner, Ann McGee-Cooper & Associates and author of Time Management for Unmanageable People and You Don't Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted Don Frick has done an astonishing job of bringing to life my father and the times in which he lived. The book illuminates the rich and meandering path which led Robert K. Greenleaf to the epiphany in which he conceived of the heroic and inspiring ideal of the servant-leader. --Dr. Newcomb Greenleaf, who carries on his father's lineage of servant leadership Greenleaf's life reads like an adventure novel-an adventure in ideas, people and spirit. Organic gardener, painter, astronomer, jeweler, researcher, master craftsman, philosopher, trusted consultant to key leaders in business, education, philanthropy and religion, Bob Greenleaf fulfills the classic description of genius. An avid seeker of deeper insights into human potential, growth, and a kind of leadership that encourages the creation of great places to work, extraordinary teamwork, productivity and joy in work, Greenleaf's insights into leadership open new possibilities for all of us. -Ann McGee-Cooper, Owner, Ann McGee-Cooper & Associates and author of Time Management for Unmanageable People and You Don't Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted Don Frick has done an astonishing job of bringing to life my father and the times in which he lived. The book illuminates the rich and meandering path which led Robert K. Greenleaf to the epiphany in which he conceived of the heroic and inspiring ideal of the servant-leader. -Dr. Newcomb Greenleaf, who carries on his father's lineage of servant leadership Author InformationDon M. Frick co-edited, with Larry Spears, the book On Becoming a Servant-Leader (1996) and contributed chapters to Reflections on Leadership (1995), and Insights on Leadership (1998). He has conducted workshops on the theory and practice of servant leadership for numerous for-profit and nonprofit organizations, with audiences ranging from educators to managers to community leadership professionals. Don has designed and writ- ten servant leadership curricula for Sterling College, the Servant-Leader Development Center, and several business organizations, and is in demand as a public speaker. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
