Practicing Servant-Leadership

Larry C. Spears is president and CEO of the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership. Spears is the former managing director of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, a cooperative association of twelve colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including On Becoming a Servant-Leader, Reflections on Leadership, and Seeker and Servant from Jossey-Bass. Michele Lawrence directs the annual international conference for the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and acts as editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Servant-Leader. Together with Spears, she is coeditor of Focus on Leadership from John Wiley & Sons.

• Foreword: Why Servant-Leadership Matters (Warren Bennis). Preface.Acknowledgments.The Editors and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership.The Contributors.1. Who Is the Servant-Leader? (Robert K. Greenleaf).2. The Understanding and Practice of Servant-Leadership (Larry C. Spears).3. The Unique Double Servant-Leadership Role of the Board Chairperson (John Carver).4. Love and WorkA Conversation with James A. Autry.5. Servant-Leadership and Philanthropic Institutions (John C. Burkhardt, Larry C. Spears).6. On the Right Side of History (John C. Bogle).7. Anatomy of a Collaboration: An Act of Servant-Leadership (Wendell J.Walls).8. Servant-Leadership Characteristics in Organizational Life (Don DeGraaf, Colin Tilley, Larry Neal).9. Toward a Theology of Institutions (David L. Specht with Richard R. Broholm).10. Foresight as the Central Ethic of Leadership (Daniel H. Kim).11. Servant-Leadership, Forgiveness, and Social Justice (Shann R. Ferch).12. The Servant-Leader: From Hero to HostAn Interview with Margaret J. Wheatley.Endnotes.Recommended Reading.Index.