Monthly Archives: February 2017

Greenleaf writes: …the leader is trusted because he chances losing his leadership by taking the initiating risks to venture for the common good, because he insists on the hard choices required to build and rebuild institutions within a social framework … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Moral principles do not emerge from theory, but from testing and experience.  Theories are later built to encase and explain the working principles.  The new principle of the servant as leader is more likely to emerge in practice … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Those who choose to follow this principle [that the leader is clearly servant-first]…will freely respond only to individuals who are chosen as leaders because they are proven and trusted as servants.  Let’s explore this statement a bit.  For … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: …taking a fresh look at the issues of power and authority, and some are beginning to learn, however, haltingly, to relate to one another in less coercive and more creatively supporting ways. Our Nation is experiencing an exercise … Continue reading →