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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789727403321

Autore

Frick Don M. <1946->

Titolo

Robert K. Greenleaf [[electronic resource] ] : a life of servant leadership / / Don M. Frick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2004

ISBN

1-283-26870-1

9786613268709

1-60509-716-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Disciplina

303.3/4/092

B

Soggetti

Executives - United States

Business consultants - United States

Leadership

Management

Organizational effectiveness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-415) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Servant : 1904-1926 -- pt. 2. Seeker : 1926-1964 -- pt. 3. Leader : 1964-1990.

Sommario/riassunto

Thousands if not millions of people have heard the term "servant leadership," introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in his landmark essay The Servant as Leader, published in 1970. There are now Centers for Servant Leadership in ten countries and counting. His work is regularly cited by some of the most prominent business writers and leaders in the world, such as Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block. And yet until now there has been no biography of the man who first developed this revolutionary idea. Don Frick was given unfettered access to all of Greenleaf'