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Historical Derivative of Servant Leadership and the Untold Story of the Influence of Quakerism on Greenleaf's Teachings

Historical Derivative of Servant Leadership and the Untold Story of the Influence of Quakerism on Greenleaf's Teachings
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Author(s): Tiffany L. Beaver (Independent Scholar, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 18
Source title: Servant Leadership: Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Raj Selladurai (Indiana University Northwest, USA)and Shawn Carraher (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5840-0.ch012

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Abstract

Robert Greenleaf reignited an interest in servant leadership; however, the concept is far from nascent. The multivariate religious influences glistening throughout servant leadership, orchestrate a mosaic imbued with benevolence and service. Although servant leadership transcends religion, the Quaker influence on how Greenleaf approached and taught servant leadership is significant yet gregariously absent in the literature. This chapter navigates the unexplored relationship between servant leadership and Quakerism. The chapter additionally encourages more widespread adoption of Smith's servant leadership paradigm, which goes beyond inverting the leadership paradigm and instead blurs the lines between leading and following, resembling a neurological infrastructure. The kaleidoscopic shift that servant leadership imbues maximizes the powerhouse of knowledge inherent in all organizations.

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