Preface
One day in 1986 a manila envelope postmarked Dallas, TX arrived in the mail. I opened it eagerly because it was sent by the author Ann McGeeCooper, my friend and long-time mentor. Inside was a thirty-seven page essay bound in a plain orange cover with the title The Servant as Leader. The first paragraph hooked me: “Servant and leader. Can these two roles be fused in one real person, in all levels of status or calling? If so, can that person live and be productive in the real world of the present? My sense of the present leads me to say yes to both questions. This paper is an attempt to explain why and to suggest how.”1
I spent the rest of the day reading and re-reading this piece by Robert K. Greenleaf, a man whom I had only heard ...
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