Servant Leadership: A view of my world through the eyes of Greenleaf
Robert K. Greenleaf (1904 – 1990), the founder of the modern Servant Leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership The First Impression Coming across Greenleaf’s thoughts had given me both hope and confidence. I am delighted that someone like Robert K. Greenleaf did exist and gift those invaluable thoughts to this world. I felt that going through the thoughts shared by Greenleaf didn’t quite lead to discovery of a Standard Operating Procedure sort of thing - a mechanical list of exact steps to accomplish something exact. It, instead, left me with a change in and an addition to my human-spirit. When I came across the essay ‘The Servant as Leader’ years ago, instantaneously, I had this feeling that I had stumbled upon a life-changing treasure. While going through the essay, I kept on saying to myself, yes, yes and yes for all the thoughts he had shared in that piece of work. For, it resonated so much with what I believed in, who I was and what I hoped. There was no
