The general principles of servant leadership are timeless, but the movement was re-energized when a man named Robert K. Greenleaf published an essay in 1970 called “The Servant As Leader.” In this essay, Greenleaf proposed a radical concept: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first…That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions.” Greenleaf followed this essay with a second one, “The Institution as Servant,” which proposed that organizations could also act as servant-leaders and change the world. In this essay, Greenleaf said: “…Caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the rock upon… Read More.
