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The Virtue Of Profit (Seattle), C. William Pollard Feb 2010

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.


Reconceptualizing Leadership Education, Jacl Editors Jan 2010

Reconceptualizing Leadership Education, Jacl Editors

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Puentes: Journey Notes From A Bridge Person, Albert Reyes Jan 2010

Puentes: Journey Notes From A Bridge Person, Albert Reyes

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


“I Don’T Lend Money; It Causes Amnesia!” Money, Culture And Ethics, Annetta M. Gibson Jan 2010

“I Don’T Lend Money; It Causes Amnesia!” Money, Culture And Ethics, Annetta M. Gibson

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Leadership As Landscaping, Rick Stiffney Jan 2010

Leadership As Landscaping, Rick Stiffney

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In [Review] / Collins, J., Erich Baumgartner Jan 2010

How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In [Review] / Collins, J., Erich Baumgartner

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


The Practice Of Adaptive Leadership: Tools And Tactics For Changing Your Organization And The World [Review] / Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M., Thomas C. Gyuroka Jan 2010

The Practice Of Adaptive Leadership: Tools And Tactics For Changing Your Organization And The World [Review] / Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M., Thomas C. Gyuroka

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Administrative Decentralization: Should Districts And Regions Elect Their Own Leaders In Ghana?, Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako Jan 2010

Administrative Decentralization: Should Districts And Regions Elect Their Own Leaders In Ghana?, Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako

Faculty Publications

Decentralization, leadership accountability, and empowerment of local leaders in Ghana are the main focus of this analysis. The paper discusses the complexities of decentralization and leadership responsibilities to effect changes toward a better path to socioeconomic development. It examines the problem with the Ghana Constitution as it pertains to local government elections and advocates for a constitutional amendment to empower districts and regions to elect their own leaders so that local governments in each district can be efficient and accountable to the electorate.


Leadership With Grace, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Susan Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas Jan 2010

Leadership With Grace, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Susan Gooden, Nakeina E. Douglas

The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute Publications

A remarkable lady of incredible talent and vision, Dr. Grace Edmondson Harris had a unique experience with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). A native of rural Halifax County in southern Virginia, she was denied admission to graduate study at VCU (then Richmond Professional Institute), a large public university in Richmond, Virginia. Ironically, later in 1967, Dr. Harris became the first African American female faculty member in the School of Social Work at VCU and ascended the ranks to become Dean of the School of Social Work, Provost, and Acting President prior to her retirement in 1999. Although Dr. Harris has strong …


Contextualising Csr: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches To Development Initiatives In Southeast Asia, Christine Davis, Stephanie Soderborg Jan 2010

Contextualising Csr: Multi-Stakeholder Approaches To Development Initiatives In Southeast Asia, Christine Davis, Stephanie Soderborg

Social Space

As the focus on CSR expands throughout Asia, discussion prevails about the form it needs to take to be germane to the needs of each respective country. The authors discuss Kenan Institute Asia’s efforts in developing a responsible management education (or CSR curriculum and training) for future managers and business leaders in Vietnam.


The Universal Servant: Reflections On Robert Greenleaf's Servant-Leadership As Related To Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, And The Quest For The Ultimate Theory, Samuel R. D. Massey Jan 2010

The Universal Servant: Reflections On Robert Greenleaf's Servant-Leadership As Related To Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, And The Quest For The Ultimate Theory, Samuel R. D. Massey

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The Question As a Christian pastor I appreciate the physical acts of worship, performed by people situated in place, space, and time. When people lift their hands in grateful worship and engage in a plethora of other meaningful activities, their circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, neural, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary systems all participate in some manner to make human actions possible. These multiple acts of creativity depend on a universe conducive to life. Put more evocatively, we might state that all of us and the world surrounding us are served by the universe or nothing would exist. This …


Servant-Leadership: Creating Community And Personal Wholeness, The Keys To Competitive Business Success, Martha M. Geaney Jan 2010

Servant-Leadership: Creating Community And Personal Wholeness, The Keys To Competitive Business Success, Martha M. Geaney

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Trust, respect, love, the notion of liability for each other, and the knowledge of how to live in community while also enhancing the economic value and cultural values of institutions are opportunities to increase our business competitiveness and success. -Robert K. Greenleaf, The Servant as Leader In his essay, The Servant as Leader, Greenleaf (1991/1970) called for recapturing our knowledge of what it means to live in community. Heidentified the need to understand how to create community and carry the values of trust, respect, love, and liability into our businesses, churches, governments, and schools (Greenleaf, 1991/1970, p. 29). In today's …


An Inward Journey, Robert K. Greenleaf Jan 2010

An Inward Journey, Robert K. Greenleaf

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

It was my privilege to see a bit of Robert Frost in his last years and, having a feeling for the man as a person, his poetry has a special meaning for me. Philip Booth, in a review, said: "Poems like 'The Demiurge's Laugh,' 'The Road Not Taken,' 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'On a Tree Fallen Across the Road,' 'Desert Places,' 'Come In,' and 'Directive' map, in sequence, the road Robert Frost took into the dark woods, and record the serial ordeal he survived by surrendering himself to the conflicts such poems dramatize." Earlier in Chapter IX, …


The Glass Ceiling Women Face: An Examination And Proposals For Development Of Future Women Entrepreneurs, Janet Nixdorff, Theodore H. Rosen Jan 2010

The Glass Ceiling Women Face: An Examination And Proposals For Development Of Future Women Entrepreneurs, Janet Nixdorff, Theodore H. Rosen

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

As of 2007, there were an estimated 10.4 million businesses in the United States that were owned and operated by women. The number of women-owned firms has continued to grow at around twice the rate of all firms for the past two decades (Center for Women’s Business Research, 2008). On the other hand, women comprise only 15.4 percent of corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies (Catalyst, 2007b) and, in 2003, held only 14.8 percent of board seats in the Fortune 500 (Catalyst, 2007a).To better understand the glass ceiling faced by both female entrepreneurs and women leaders, the research on women’s …


Servant-Leadership And Organizational Outcomes: A Review Of The Literature, Jeffrey L. Mcclellan Jan 2010

Servant-Leadership And Organizational Outcomes: A Review Of The Literature, Jeffrey L. Mcclellan

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Servant-leadership is too soft, too touchy-feely, too abstract! How can you measure its effects? Does it really make a difference in the life ofthe leader or the follower? What about productivity and profitability? What is the impact of servant-leadership on organizational objectives? After all, organizations exist to make money and they cannot meet the needs of people unless they do? So, does this philosophy of leadership really make a difference? These are the questions that critics and potential advocates alike lobby against the philosophy and practice of servant-leadership. To those who vehemently practice and defend the concept, these questions may …


Lessons In Leadership Development From The Master Student, Duane M. Covrig Jan 2010

Lessons In Leadership Development From The Master Student, Duane M. Covrig

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Learning While Leading: The Andrews University Leadership Program, Duane M. Covrig, Erich Baumgartner Jan 2010

Learning While Leading: The Andrews University Leadership Program, Duane M. Covrig, Erich Baumgartner

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Servant-Leadership, Humility, And Action: An Interview With Ken Blanchard, Larry Spears, Shann Ferch Jan 2010

Servant-Leadership, Humility, And Action: An Interview With Ken Blanchard, Larry Spears, Shann Ferch

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Spears: In your forward to Focus on Leadership in 2002, you mentioned meeting Bob Greenleaf for the first time at Ohio University. Would you share with us your recollections of that meeting and any sense you had of Greenleaf at the time?


Greenleaf’S Servant-Leadership And Quakerism: A Nexus, Carolyn Crippen Jan 2010

Greenleaf’S Servant-Leadership And Quakerism: A Nexus, Carolyn Crippen

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Two hundred copies of a small thirty-seven page booklet with a bright orange cardstock cover were published in 1970. The author, Robert Kiefner Greenleaf (1904-1990), introduced a paradox in The Servant as Leader (Greenleaf, 1970) and presented a new approach to leadership including followership and service. Today there is an abundance of literature about the concept of leadership in general, and specifically, about particular types of leadership, for instance, contingency leadership (Fielder & Chemers, 1974); moral leadership (Sergiovanni, 1992); distributive leadership (Harris & Muijs, 2005); lateral leadership (Fisher & Sharp, 2004); shared leadership (Pearce & Conger, 2003); and transformational leadership …


Igwebuike: Creating A Community Of Strength, Peter O. Amah Jan 2010

Igwebuike: Creating A Community Of Strength, Peter O. Amah

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Team building is a backbone of any successful community. According to Pace, Smith, and Mills (1991) individuals who come together with a common agenda, planning, sharing goals, and reporting to a common superordinate, work together in the path of growth. The people of Arochukwu in Southeast Nigeria called this igwebuike. The word igwebuike etymologically came from the three Igbo words Igwe, bu, and ike which mean a community of strength. Arochukwu, an Igbo-speaking community, believes that it is the nature of a community to be strong. This community strength lies in the willingness for all members to play active roles …


Enacting Servant-Leadership From The Inside Out, Michael Bell, Sylvia Habel Jan 2010

Enacting Servant-Leadership From The Inside Out, Michael Bell, Sylvia Habel

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The Character of the Servant-Leader From the very conception of the term, writing about servant-leadership was focused on the individual who would be leader (Greenleaf, 1970). This defining feature, the focus on the servant-leader's character, is at the core of ongoing research (Laub, 1999; Abel, 2000; Russell, 2001; Russell & Stone, 2002; Sendjaya & Sarros, 2002; Patterson, 2003; Stone, Russell, & Patterson, 2004; Page & Wong, 2003, 2005), and this paper proposes a way toward developing a servant-leader's character through deliberate action, thinking, and visioning.


Ua77/2/1 Alumni Relations Events Annual Banquet / Hall Of Distinguished Alumni, Wku Archives Jan 2010

Ua77/2/1 Alumni Relations Events Annual Banquet / Hall Of Distinguished Alumni, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Invitations, programs and recordings of annual events sponsored by the Alumni Association such as the Alumni Banquet and Hall of Distinguished Alumni induction.


Parental Leadership: The Mary Poppins Metaphor, Brad Van Alstyne Jan 2010

Parental Leadership: The Mary Poppins Metaphor, Brad Van Alstyne

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Existing theories on leadership are usually based on efforts we are familiar with in which leaders are easily defined (work, war, sports, etc). Little analysis to date has been placed on the role of parents as leaders outside of the social sciences where the focus of the research is usually an offshoot of psychology or childhood development. The parent as leader is a unique focus in that there are several qualities of the parent role that are quite different from that of the typical supervisory roles we normally discuss, while at the same time it would be foolish to think …


The Participant, Jonathan Johnson Jan 2010

The Participant, Jonathan Johnson

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

A poem by Jonathan Johnson.


A Gift In Exile: Leadership And Creativity In Babette’S Feast, Daniel Loftin Jan 2010

A Gift In Exile: Leadership And Creativity In Babette’S Feast, Daniel Loftin

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. -Isak Dinesen Isak Dinesen considered any work of art as a manifestation of its own unique inner laws (Whissen, 1973, p. 67). If we accept the quotation above as given, it is germane to ask what constitutes …


Servant-Leadership At Forty: The Case For Contemporary Research, Dan Parrish, Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster Jan 2010

Servant-Leadership At Forty: The Case For Contemporary Research, Dan Parrish, Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Kent Keith (2008) begins his book, The Case for Servant-leadership, with the following paragraph: This book is about creating a better world. There does not have to be so much pain and suffering, so much war and violence, so much starvation and disease, so many crushed dreams and untapped talents, so many problems unsolved and so many opportunities ignored. The world does not have to be like this. (p. IX; emphasis in original) Keith expresses a sentiment that is commonly held among adherents to servant-leadership: the world needs healing, and individuals, group members, and organizational leaders are each responsible for …


The Changing Day Imperative, Jonathan Johnson Jan 2010

The Changing Day Imperative, Jonathan Johnson

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

A poem by Jonathan Johnson.


Why An Undergraduate Leadership Program?, David Ferguson Jan 2010

Why An Undergraduate Leadership Program?, David Ferguson

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Learning To Be Calm In The Storm, M. Aufderhar, R. Flowers Jan 2010

Learning To Be Calm In The Storm, M. Aufderhar, R. Flowers

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.


Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, And Happiness [Review] / Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R, Jessica L. Ickes Jan 2010

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, And Happiness [Review] / Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R, Jessica L. Ickes

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.