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The Power of Servant-Leadership
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The Power of Servant-Leadership

by Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears, Peter B. Vaill
September 1998
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 30m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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The Leadership CrisisA Message for College and University Faculty

INTRODUCTION

In the eight years since I wrote the following essay on “The Leadership Crisis,” I have moved into a more meditative life with greater concern for the forces and influences that either nurture or depress the human spirit. And I have come to see the conditions that raise or lower the quality of life in colleges and universities as not materially different from those that operate in other institutions: governments, hospitals, churches, schools, businesses, philanthropies. Therefore, what I first addressed to colleges and universities and published in an academic journal, now seems to me to be much more widely relevant. And what is being said today in the flood of literature ...

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ISBN: 9781576750353