Monthly Archives: April 2020

Greenleaf writes: It is a major trustee role to build legitimacy by being sensitive to critical thinking from all quarters and helping to interpret the meaning of it to the internal leadership and administration… Legitimacy begins with trust.  No matter … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Highly developed conceptualizers who are effective in top leadership seem to be much rarer than able operators.  This may be because the number needed is substantially less, or because they do not emerge naturally out of those with … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes:…By optimal balance between the two is meant a relationship in which both conceptualizers and operators understand, respond, and depend on one another, and in which neither dominates the other.  …the council of equals with a primus inter pares … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: The prime force for achievement through service is an administrative group with optimal balance between operators and conceptualizers.  The operating talent carries the institution toward its objectives, in the situation, from day to day, and resolves the issues … Continue reading →

Greenleaf writes: Being in the top position prevents leadership by persuasion because the single chief holds too much power.  Chiefs often cannot say persuasively what they would like to say because it will be taken as an order.  No one … Continue reading →