Notes #37: Servant Leadership Redux I

Every so often in this series I will revisit concepts, maybe delve into them deeper or provide new (or newly found) resources.  Servant leadership is a topic that is still expanding with new works or has works that should be explored further.  So here are some additional works and some I mentioned too briefly in the past.

First off, here is a great video I found on Greenleaf and the Greenleaf Center: 

Notes #3 An Introduction to Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership.  What is it?  Do you know?  A lot of people may have heard the term in recent years, but do they really understand what it means?  Or is it just the latest leadership buzz word? 

While the basic concept of servant leadership has been around for a long time, the modern usage of it started in 1970 with the publication of an essay entitled “The Servant as Leader” by Robert Greenleaf, who is considered the modern originator of the concept.  From that concept he further developed it and others have also come along, including Larry Spears, Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Max De Pree and others who have added and expanded on it.