Servant Leadership: Robert K. Greenleaf's 'Leading Change In Your World'
Assignment: In a 2-page essay, using material from Leading Change in Your World and at least one library (local or OCLS) source, discuss the following questions:
Question 1: What is servant leadership? Servant leadership is a model of leadership that starts from the top of the leadership ladder and goes on down to the workers. It’s a model that revolves around serving others. This model emphasizes increased service to others, promoting a sense of community, the sharing of power in decision making, and a new complete approach to work. It is interesting seeing the two words servant and leader being put together, because they often seem so much like opposites, but in this manner, they are brought together in this creative way to create a unique and necessary leadership style. The phrase “servant leadership” was originally created by Robert Greenleaf in his essay The Servant as Leader that he published in 1970. On the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant …show more content…
There is quite a difference in servant leadership than there is in other leadership models. Our textbook, “Leading Change in Your World”, provides us with three different leadership models other than servant leadership (Lindsay, pp 57). Managerial administrators are driven by communicating the information that the CEO wants the manager to communicate. Transactional leaders use different perks, rewards and incentives to get their employees to do what they need them to do. Transformational leaders put a lot of emphasis on shared vision, team building and creating a culture of mutual trust and collaboration. All of these differ from servant leadership, because of one main factor that sets this leadership style apart from all others. Servant leadership is about serving others. Servant leadership enables a person to lead, but at the same time, thinking of the needs of others and creating an environment of service and
Question 1: What is servant leadership? Servant leadership is a model of leadership that starts from the top of the leadership ladder and goes on down to the workers. It’s a model that revolves around serving others. This model emphasizes increased service to others, promoting a sense of community, the sharing of power in decision making, and a new complete approach to work. It is interesting seeing the two words servant and leader being put together, because they often seem so much like opposites, but in this manner, they are brought together in this creative way to create a unique and necessary leadership style. The phrase “servant leadership” was originally created by Robert Greenleaf in his essay The Servant as Leader that he published in 1970. On the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant …show more content…
There is quite a difference in servant leadership than there is in other leadership models. Our textbook, “Leading Change in Your World”, provides us with three different leadership models other than servant leadership (Lindsay, pp 57). Managerial administrators are driven by communicating the information that the CEO wants the manager to communicate. Transactional leaders use different perks, rewards and incentives to get their employees to do what they need them to do. Transformational leaders put a lot of emphasis on shared vision, team building and creating a culture of mutual trust and collaboration. All of these differ from servant leadership, because of one main factor that sets this leadership style apart from all others. Servant leadership is about serving others. Servant leadership enables a person to lead, but at the same time, thinking of the needs of others and creating an environment of service and