What is Servant Leadership?

Servant Leadership in the Workplace – 3 Principles

Principles are guiding rules that influence how things are done. As I see it, servant-leaders follow these 3 workplace principles. 1.  Serve First. Robert Greenleaf coined the term servant leadership in his important 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader. There, Greenleaf contrasts two types of leaders, which he called the “servant first” and the “leader

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Really, A Servant’s Heart?

We could say that a servant-leader has a “servant’s heart.” Really, a servant’s heart? Yes, really. Servant leadership is grounded in a desire to serve. That’s the primary thing that distinguishes servant leadership from other leadership approaches. Robert Greenleaf coined the term servant leadership in his important 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader. There, Greenleaf

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