Monthly Archives: December 2020

Greenleaf writes: [Serving] requires that the concerned individual accept the problems he sees in the world as his own personal task, as a means of achieving his own integrity.  He sees the external manifestation of this internal achievement as beginning … Continue reading →

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: A new moral principle may be emerging which holds that the only authority deserving one’s allegiance is that which is freely and knowingly granted by the led to the leader in response to, and in proportion to, the … Continue reading →

Before I continue to quote from what I call Greenleaf’s ‘Inspired Essay’ (his first iteration of ‘The Servant as Leader’ written in 1969) I invite us to pause and reflect upon a few of Greenleaf’s ‘Characteristics’ of the Servant-first Leader.  … Continue reading →