Category Archives: Social Change
The Paradox of “Leadership Lists”
So many books on leadership and management feature lists. There’s Edwards Deming’s “14 Management Principles,” Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” Robert Quinn’s “8 Seed Thoughts.” Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals contains 11 rules on “the ethics of means … Continue reading
Art, Rhythm, Intuition, and Social Change
In his pamphlet The Servant as Leader, Robert Greenleaf writes: “The prudent man is he who constantly thinks of ‘now’ as the moving concept in which past, present moment, and future are one organic unity. And this requires living by … Continue reading
The “Structure” of “The Servant as Leader”
Note: This is the lead post in a series on Robert Greenleaf’s The Servant as Leader. A seminal piece in leadership theory, this small book—a long essay, actually—started the whole field of Servant Leadership studies. See end for a list … Continue reading