LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SERVANT LEADERSHIP DCE 5730 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 3SERVANT LEADERSHIP 4SERVANT LEADERSHIP 1Introduction 5SERVANT LEADERSHIP The Servant - Leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that ones to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead….The best test, and difficult to administer is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, and more likely themselves to become more servants? And, what is the effect on the last privileges in society? Will they benefit, or at least not further to be harmed.Greenleaf, 1970 Definition Definition6SERVANT LEADERSHIP Robert K. Greenleaf (1977), and Spears (1995)A servant leader is someone who is a servant first, who has the responsibility to be in the world and contributes to the well-being of people and the community. History 7April 2010 Servant Leadership: A Re ant Leadership: A Review of Liter view of Literature Clay Brewer Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
[email protected] LEADERSHIP The concept of servant leadership can be traced through passages dating back to the 4th century B.C., most notably passages documented from Lao-Tzu who lived in China 570 B.C.1234Lao-Tzu was a Chinese philosopher who was deeply influential,