Robert K. Greenleaf

Meet the man whose work influenced some of the world s most prominent business leaders and spawned a worldwide movement that is still gaining strength today. Robert Greenleaf s landmark 1970 essay, The Servant as Leader, introduced the now common term servant leadership to the world. His work has been cited by leading writers and business people including Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block and led to the development of Centers for Servant Leadership around the world.

This long-awaited biography of Robert Greenleaf, authorized by his surviving children, finally tells his story. Drawn from Greenleaf s personal papers, correspondence, and interviews with family and friends, it provides a fascinating look at the sources of Greenleaf s thought, his friendships with some of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century including Eleanor Roosevelt, Peter Drucker, the Menninger brothers, Reinhold Niebuhr, Aldous Huxley, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson, and many others and how he influenced business history well before his first book was published at the age of seventy-three.

At a time when leadership and management fads substitute as wisdom, Robert Greenleaf s life stories provide clues for how each person can make a difference in the workplace, no matter what position he or she holds.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I: Servant: 1904 1926
Chapter 1 Breakthrough to a Paradox
Chapter 2 First Light
Chapter 3 George Greenleaf: Community Steward
Chapter 4 Religious and Hoosier Heritages
Chapter 5 Awe of the Stars
Chapter 6 A Willingness to Venture

PART II: Seeker: 1926 1964
Chapter 7 Adventure in Spirit
Chapter 8 Crash and Rush
Chapter 9 A Passion for Learning
Chapter 10 Openings and Convincement: The Quaker Way
Chapter 11 Quaker at War
Chapter 12 Researcher and Teacher
Chapter 13 Meetings With Remarkable People
Chapter 14 Crisis of Questions
Chapter 15 Husband and Father
Chapter 16 Breakout From AT&T

PART III: Leader: 1964 1990
Chapter 17 New Skin for New Wine
Chapter 18 The Servant Series
Chapter 19 Back to Spirit
Chapter 20 Twilight
Afterword
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author