Monthly Archives: April 2019

In his 1966 essay, The Search and the Seeker, Greenleaf asks us a question: Why is it so important not to name the goal, not to seek to find?   Greenleaf responds as follows: Because one can only name a … Continue reading →

In April, 1966, three years before he wrote his inspired essay The Servant as Leader Greenleaf wrote The Search and the Seeker.  I have read and re-read this essay hundreds of times since I was first gifted with it in … Continue reading →

In Greenleaf’s seminal essay addressed to college/university student leaders [The Servant as Leader, circa 1969], he offers us the critical question: What distinguishes the servant of others from the self-serving person?  He responds as follows: Great injustice and destruction have been … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: The servant prepares him/herself to lead by a process of growth through experience guided by a self-image as a builder and within a conceptual framework that suggests the strengths that will emerge if allowed. He continues: Leaders are … Continue reading →

The following excerpts are from an unpublished essay that Greenleaf wrote as a ‘result of discussions with students of the Harvard Business School (1960-1961).   The students participated in the Musser Seminars on Religion and Business.’  Greenleaf writes:  …from time to … Continue reading →