Servant Leadership

According to the late Robert K. Greenleaf, founder of the servant leader movement, leaders don’t have to be coercive, manipulative or unpleasant. Though Greenleaf wrote parts of this seminal guidebook decades ago, his ideas and literary references are still potent and influential.

Servants

German-Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) formalized the concept of servant leadership. He believed the fusion of servant and leader embodies the ancient concept of leaders who serve others.