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Robert K. Greenleaf. Chapter 4: Servant Leadership in Business. …between 1958-1974, is a call to a new business ethic-a striving for excellence. Businesses are asked not only to produce…. Page 147. My point is that we in the United States are more naïve than most about…. Page 148-149.
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Robert K. Greenleaf Chapter 4:Servant Leadership in Business
…between 1958-1974, is a call to a new business ethic-a striving for excellence. Businesses are asked not only to produce… Page 147
My point is that we in the United States are more naïve than most about… Page 148-149
One way that some people serve is to lead. And anyone who does this manipulates others because… Page 150-151
General Motors and Sears are still “their” companies… The role of top leadership in large American business… Page 153
The value to conserve power is inverse to its use. The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work. Put another way, the… I have said that the idea is not new but that its adoption… Page 154-155
The new ethic will come, if it comes, as an acknowledgment… …how many determined builders there are who can… The process has already started in some businesses with the… Page 157
Motivation then becomes what people generate for themselves when they experience growth. …the new ethic requires that growth of those who do the work… Page 158
… “meaningful work” is likely to be delivered only within an employing institution… Page 159
Strong, healthy, autonomous, self-reliant, and competent people don’t mind being manipulated. Page 160
Manipulation, as I see it, is one of the imperfections of an imperfect world… (the whole paragraph) Reducing mediocrity is a slow, difficult, person-by-person process…(whole paragraph) Page 162
The safest way I know for changing a character of any institution… Page 166