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Servant-Leadership: Reflection On A 30-Year Partnership Of The Spirit, Ann Mcgee-Cooper, Duane Trammell, Gary Looper

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

This is a story about serendipity, synergy and synchronicity. Thirty years ago, three lives converged as a result of a chance meeting. Their collective calling gave birth to a vision that has transformed three generations of leaders. Robert K. Greenleaf rose to a challenge from his economics professor to find ways to transform the dysfunction within large businesses and organizations by working from the inside. He captured the imagination of many with his seminal essay, The Servant as Leader. In it, he thoughtfully delineated a practical philosophy of leadership that was dramatically different from the traditional model of the "egocentric" …

Servant-Leadership And Vulnerability: A Brief Interview With Bill Robinson, Bill Robinson

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

1. Greenleaf refers to love as essential to both the servant and the leader in generating legitimate power in the self, the organization, the community, and the world. Emerson furthers this point when he proposed the following: mediocre people want to be loved; true people are lovely. How does love influence your own leadership and your way offollowing others? I think I'm probably influenced by some kind of twisted, quid pro quo love, but I don't find the agape version showing up too often. When my oldest daughter was a senior in high school, she hung out with a friend …

Spirituality And Leadership Among College Freshmen, Barry Posner, Charles Slater, Mike Boone

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Over a century ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson bragged to Henry Thoreau that "at Harvard they teach all branches of learning." Thoreau responded, "Yes, but they don't teach the roots" (Jacobs, 1991, p. 277). This sort of commentary continues to this day as a growing number of scholars and practitioners argue that the roots of effective leadership are grounded in the spiritual dimension of individual leaders ( e.g., Conger, 1994; Marcie, 1997; Mitroff & Denton, 1999). While hundreds of articles and books about spirituality and the workplace are now appearing, most are theory-based or anecdotal (Strack, 2001). Very little quantitative and …

Evolving Leadership: Servant-Leadership In The Political World, Harris W. Fawell

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

An interesting experience about how leadership can work in modern businesses occurred when I was a Member of Congress. It involved legislation entitled the Teamwork of Employees and Management Act (Team Act) that was introduced in Congress at the request of a group of employers. The employers sought to amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to allow teams of their employees to determine terms and conditions of their employment.

Magis Leadership: Toward An Active Ontology Of The Heart Through Appreciative Inquiry And Servant-Leadership, Karen Norum

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

There are many emerging models of leadership. Transactional, transformational, command and control, facilitative, situational, contingency, charismatic, servant, relational, strengths-based, values-based, and principled are but a few of them. Many of these models focus on the person who is the leader: the one who is in charge, whom others follow, who holds a certain position in a hierarchy, or who has some sort of influence. The models tend to outline characteristics, behaviors, and attributes of leaders with the focus on individualistic and positional aspects of leadership (Heifetz, 1994; Schall, Ospina, Godsoe, & Dodge, 2004). While this is useful, the focus on …

Book Review: Presence: An Exploration Of Profound Change In People, Organizations, And Society, Kurt S. Takamine

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Imagine you are sitting in a living room with Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline and The Dance of Change), C. Otto Scharmer (Helsinki School of Economics), Joseph Jaworski (Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership), and Betty Sue Flowers (Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin) as they discuss topics such as "transformational change" and "deeper levels of learning." In this conversation, the authors not only share current research in the field of organizational learning, but reveal their personal insights and frustrations as well. This is the setting for their book, Presence.

“One Of Us Lost Our Frame Of Reference”: How Greenleaf’S Concepts Of Healing, Building Community, And Empathy Deal With Prejudice And Racism In The Film Crash, Kurt Takamine

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much-that we crash into each other just so we can feel something. -Detective Graham Thus begins the opening dialogue of Detective Graham Waters, the main character portrayed by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle. Through his character's eyes, the audience is introduced to the blatant racism that supposedly occurs in this Southern Californian metropolis. The ugliness of prejudice is dealt with in a non-politically correct and "no-holds barred" approach. The images are often deeply disturbing, and decidedly tragic, but most people will be …

I Want To Be A Ukrainian, Margaret Wheatley

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

A poem by Margaret Wheatley.

Servant-Leadership And The New Millennium, Larry Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The following essay by Larry Spears gives a current history of the work of servant-leadership associated with the Greenleaf Center for ServantLeadership, Westfield, Indiana, United States ofAmerica. Following the essay is an interview of Larry Spears conducted by Barbara Tey, from Malaysia. The interview appeared in the Jan.-March 2006 issue of the Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Management. The 2005 annual international conference on servant-leadership, held in Indianapolis, attained significant reach, with people attending from thirtyfive states and nine countries: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. I think it's important …

Servant-Leadership And Unconditional Forgiveness: The Lives Of Six South African Perpetrators, Marleen Ramsey

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Servant-leadership practices are becoming increasingly more important as modern humanity makes desperate attempts to heal from the atrocities of war, interpersonal violence, and injustices that destroy the human spirit. Laub (1999) conceptualizes servant leadership in the following way: Servant-leadership is an understanding and practice of leadership that places the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader. Servantleadership promotes the valuing and development of people, the building of community, the practice of authenticity, the providing of leadership for the good of those led and the sharing of power and status for the common good of each individual. (p. …

Maestro: Exploring The Development Of A Servant-Leader, Martha Helland

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

I don't know that I can define or articulate my leadership style. I can only think that I always tried to be prepared musically. Beyond that I guess I just tried to get the job done in a way that enables others to do their best and that affirms and supports them as professionals and as wondeiful people. -Henry Charles Smith A large portion of existing servant-leadership literature focuses on defining what it is, describing how it differs from other leadership practices, discussing its merits, verifying its efficacy, and persuading others to embrace and practice its principles across a broad …

A Poetics Of Servant-Leadership, Nadine Chapman

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

One day somebody "identified" me. Beside me, in the queue, there was a woman with blue lips. She had, of course, never heard of me; but she suddenly came out of that trance so common to us all and whispered in my ear (everybody spoke in whispers there): "Can you describe this?" And I said: "Yes, I can." And then something like the shadow of a smile crossed what had once been her face. -Akhmatova (1985, p. 87) Anna Akhmatova places her great elegiac poem, "Requiem," in the years of the Yezhov terror, during Stalin's purges, when she spent seventeen …

Principle-Based Dialogue: A Model Of Consulting That Applies The Insights Of Robert K. Greenleaf To Organizational Development And Transcendent Leadership, Paul M. Nakai

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

In the early 1980s one of my clients, Harry Bubb [past Chairman and CEO of Pacific Financial Companies], gave me a copy of Robert Greenleaf's book, Servant-Leadership. Harry and I would subsequently have long conversations about his view of corporate responsibility and leadership development; Greenleaf's words had struck a resonant chord with both of us. Harry felt that leadership was a fundamental state of mind-as important as any attitude, trait, displayed behavior or result achieved. Back then, I must admit, I did not fully understand his thinking, although I was mesmerized by his enthusiasm and his many ideas. In addition …

Personalization For English Learners At A Small Conversion High School, Mary Jewell Edd

Dissertations

One of the most notable ways in which large, comprehensive high schools are working to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs), and other students who may be struggling with academics, is by subdividing into smaller schools. One of the most appealing features of small schools is their emphasis on personalized instruction for students. While it takes many forms, personalizing education means knowing all students well and designing curriculum that meets their individual needs. Personalized learning environments hold enormous potential for improving the educational experiences, and even very lives, of English learners. The purpose of …

They Who Persist: A Longitudinal Quantitative Case Study Of A University Student Cohort, Kenneth J. Marra Phd

Dissertations

Since the first published work on student persistence in 1929 by Edgerton and Toups, there have been literally thousands of studies that have attempted to unravel the mystery of why some higher education students persist through to graduation while others do not. Many of these studies have been qualitative in nature, restricting their generalizability, while those that have used the few existing national databases to quantitatively study persistence have been restricted to looking within a single year at multiple institutions. What is clearly missing from the literature are methodologically sound, year-to-year persistence studies conducted at individual institutions. This deficiency in …

How Should Physicians Be Motivated To Fulfill Social Obligations?, Jackie Knupp

Honors Theses

Health is instrumental to the ability of individuals to fulfill their potential. The societal systems designed to nurture health are thereby particularly important both for the flourishing of the individual and that of society, for a society flourishes to the extent that each of its individual members flourishes. The medical professionals who strive to preserve good health in their communities through these systems are integral to the maintenance of a thriving society. They are the individuals most directly responsible for the quality of health care available to community members. It is their medical prowess and critical thinking skills that determine …

A Study Of New Jersey State Police Physical Qualification Test And It's Relationship To Leadership, Organizational Decision Making, And Policy Implementation, Richard J. Cosgrove

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Relationship Between Leadership Traits And Church Growth Among Pastors Of Free Churches In Germany, Edgar Machel

Dissertations

Problem. Many German Christian denominations have been losing members year by year for the past five decades. There are more and more voices that question the way pastors function as leaders. Therefore, this study looked at the differences of personality traits among pastors of Free Churches in Germany in the context of church growth. The leading research question was. What kind of leadership traits, behaviors, and attitudes are favorable to lead a church toward growth and to return stagnating churches to vibrancy?

Methodology. The “Business-focused Inventory of Personality” was sent out to 1,100 Pentecostal, Baptist, and Adventist pastors, of …

Hearing Whiteness, Seeing Race: Women Leaders Give Visibility To Their White Identity: A Dissertation, Ann Moritz

Educational Studies Dissertations

This study investigates what it means for women leaders to identify as White. The purpose is to examine a sense of racial identity and how that identity affects a sense of self as a leader. Twelve women answered questions from a designed interview protocol in two settings that occurred approximately four weeks apart.

[Introduction To] The Quest For A General Theory Of Leadership, George R. Goethals, Georgia L.J. Sorenson

Bookshelf

In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the conclusions and questions that arose from it.

Leadership And Learning: Two Sides Of The Same Coin, James A. Tucker

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Is The Bible Relevant To Servant-Leadership?, Forrest Flanike

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Leadership Develpment, Ron Aguilera

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of Leadership [Review] / Anthonakis, J., Cianciolo, A. T., Sternberg, Robert J., Eds., John Grys

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Culture, Leadership, And Organizations: The Globe Study Of 62 Societies [Review] / House, R. J., Hanges, P.J., & Javidan, M., Eds., Thom Wolf

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Single-Sex Student Leadership Positions On Leadership Style Used, Perceptions Of Effective Leadership, Self-Efficacy, Domain Identification, Intent To Lead In The Future, And Perceptions And Evaluations Of Leaders, Alyson Emrick

Honors Theses

Included in this paper are two studies, a survey study, and a vignette study. The survey research, Study 1, examined the effects of single-sex student leadership positions on leadership style used, perceptions of effective leadership, leadership self-efficacy, domain identification, and intent to lead in the future. It compared a group of male and female leaders of single-sex organizations, a group of men and women holding leadership positions in coeducational groups, and a group of male and female non-leaders. Male and female leaders reported using different leadership styles; men reported higher levels of the autocratic-task style while women reported higher levels …

The Impact Of Gender-Linked Tasks On Female And Male Leaders, Ashley Pyle

Honors Theses

Because gender inequalities still exist, research is needed to better understand the differences in leadership perceptions and preference between genders. This research examines the role of gender, sex role orientation, and gender-linked tasks in shaping leadership efficacy, perceived preference, and leadership persistence. It was predicted that men and women will have higher levels of leadership efficacy, perceive themselves as better leaders, have a stronger desire to attain leadership roles in the future and be more likely to persist in the leadership role for the gender congruent task than the gender incongruent task. I also predicted that sex role orientation will …

Political Differentiation In Consumer Preferences For Underdog Businesses : Does Everybody Love A Winner?, Kelly O'Connor

Honors Theses

In an exploratory study of the intersection between the worlds of social behavior and personal economics, this experiment will examine the links between political ideology and consumer preference for an ''underdog" business. The stereotypical image of the Mom and Pop comer store is romantic, but when we juxtapose this sentiment with the convenience and predictability of shopping at a giant retailer, it is unclear which store consumers will prefer, and why. This study tested the hypothesis that individuals with more liberal political orientations will be more likely to exhibit a preference for underdog businesses than individuals with conservative political leanings, …

Value Creation And Value Capture In Non-Profit Partnerships, Beth Birmingham

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this research is to study how non-profit organizations create value from partnerships, specifically, partnerships between academic institutions and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Apart from the goals of the partnership per se, how do they create long term value for their respective organizations separate from the partnership outcomes? Educational partnerships between academic institutions and other sectors have become common and somewhat necessary in the past decade. The NGOs examined in this study benefited from partnership with an academic institution in the areas of staff development and organizational capacity building. The universities in this study benefited from direct involvement …

The Leader And His Team: Love Without Measure, Robson Moura Marinho

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.