slave Leadership, Robert Greenleaf - A describe of the Book

In Charles Darwins "Origin of Species we see in the title the essence of the work. Between the covers lie wrapped in the mysterious prose of the age the basic tenets that withhold the title. I have tried and failed to find the association Between the title and the groundbreaking law that followed its publication but assume that others must have.

I have similarly found in the title of Robert Greenleaf's book "Servant Leadership" a great conception that leaps out of the title, the leader being the servant of those he leads, but reading the book have also failed to make the association Between the words in the book and the conception embodied by the title. My failure in no way compromises Greenleaf's conception summed up so succinctly by the sleeve notes which tell us.

"The servant leader is enduringly attentive to the needs of others. In this way the leader becomes a follower and in so doing ensures that those served grow as habitancy to become more autonomous, wiser and freer."

In holding with real truths Robert Greenleaf is not the originator of the conception of the servant Leader he is naturally the rediscoverer for our generation. What Stephen Covey writes in the forward is that "There is nothing as considerable as an idea whose time has come. servant Leaderships time has come."

Starting from the facility that "Traditional high operate top down administration is naturally not working" Greenleaf sets out to show the reader why and most importantly, what the alternative is.

Most administration initiatives regardless of where they generate wish others to be bought into the idea so that they can use it to make a disagreement in the organisation and this "Buy In" seems to take up an fabulous estimate of time finding for the edge that will strength habitancy to supervene the new initiative.

Servant Leadership is not about changing the way that other habitancy work by training them or having focus groups or otherwise compelling them to conform. servant Leadership is an acknowledgment that the way that we ourselves behave as leaders affects the behaviour of our workforce. The leader, by behaving in a customary directive administration manner can prevent his workforce from performing, becoming the servant Leader stops that from happening and allows the workforce to grow to their full potential.

The book paraphrased by Stephen Covey in the forward tells us that true leadership is an inner potential as much as an rehearsal in authority. He tells us that a low trust culture characterised by high operate management, political posturing, protectionism, cynicism, and internal competition naturally cannot compete with those organisations nearby the world that do emPower people.

The message of "Servant Leadership" seems very clear.

The way that the leader behaves dictates the way the habitancy led behave.

When the leader is controlling and directive he creates the environment in which his workforce cannot perform. When the leader is supportive and attentive to the needs of his workforce he allows them to engage and grow into their full potential.

The disagreement in doing Between these two types of workforce is fabulous and as he says, "Only those organisations whose habitancy willingly volunteer their creative talent will thrive as store leaders"

"Servant Leadership" is an acknowledgment that as leaders we are responsible for the doing of those we lead, not by our example but by the way we make them feel about what they do.

Servant Leadership is above all based on practise not talk.

Leaders can turn the doing of their organisations by changing the way they behave towards their workforce, because the leaders behaviour changes the way that the workforce feel about what they do.

It comes down to a easy choice. Continue telling the workforce what you think they should be doing and you make them incapable of doing what you want. Be attentive to their needs and the leader can draw out and construct the best in his workforce.

"Servant Leadership" has changed the way that Leadership is defined, I hope this book helps leaders to understand the Power of that new definition.

A narrate of the Book by Peter A Hunter

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