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What Is Your Business? (China), C. William Pollard
What Is Your Business? (China), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
Speaking during a 2010 trip to China, Pollard reflects on Peter Drucker's influence on his own life and thought, noting in particular Drucker's emphasis on the business leader's duty to understand employees in a holistic manner, that is, as capable of being enriched by their work.
Management As A Liberal Art (China), C. William Pollard
Management As A Liberal Art (China), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
Delivered during a business trip to China, this speech outlines Pollard's vision -- adopted from noted theorist Peter Drucker -- of management as a liberal art. In particular, he focuses on how corporate leadership cannot be oriented to simply utilitarian goals but must also consider the whole person physical, spiritual, and moral being.
Antecedents Of Servant Leadership: A Mixed Methods Study, Curtis D. Beck
Antecedents Of Servant Leadership: A Mixed Methods Study, Curtis D. Beck
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the antecedents of servant leadership. The sequential explanatory research design consisted of two distinct phases: quantitative followed by qualitative.
The Phase One quantitative survey collected data from 499 leaders and 630 raters from community leadership programs in the United States using the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (Barbuto & Wheeler, 2006).
During Phase Two, selected leaders from phase one (N = 12) were interviewed to explain those results in more depth. The data were coded and analyzed for possible themes. Triangulation was used to analyze the quantitative and qualitative data to validate …
The Virtue Of Profit (Seattle), C. William Pollard
The Virtue Of Profit (Seattle), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
In this speech at Seattle Pacific University, Pollard contends that profit can be considered virtuous when it allows servant leaders to invest in employees, thereby contributing to the moral and spiritual formation of human beings.