3. Robert Kiefner Greenleaf
• Born in 1904 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Died
1990 (86)
• Spent most of his organizational life in the
field of management, research,
development, and education at AT & T (38
yrs.)
• Founded Center for Applied Ethics in '64,
renamed Robert K. Greenleaf in '85
• Taught at Dartmouth College and the
University of Virginia
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
4. How can one be a leader
when he/she is servant?
5. Servant Leadership
•Sees leadership as an opportunity to serve others.
•Shares power and control to drive engagement.
•Measures success through growth and
development.
•Listens
•Understands its not about them.
6. Definitions of servant
• One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or under
compulsion
• A person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of
another, his master or employer.
• A subordinate helper
Definitions of leader
• A guiding or directing head
• A person who inspires others.
• One who has influence or power, especially of political
nature.
7. Jesus Christ is the best example of a
servant-leader.
He taught his disciples
"...he who wants to be great must be the
servant of all".
"If anyone wants to be first, he must be
the last of all and the servant of all" (Mark
9:35)
8. Public servants
- refer to appointed and
elected officials of the
government to emphasize the
fact that they indeed are
servants of the people.
12. Sustaining Change
A proof that an innovation introduced
has transformed the organization is that
the result or effect of the change persists
or ripples even when the transformative
leader is no longer present.
SUSTAINING
CHANGE