Considering That Robert K. Greenleaf composed his critical essay, The Servant as Leader, the servant management movement has risen from obscurity to the very concepts of how the most effective companies on earth operate and profit. Approximately one-third of those business are regularly included in Fortune publication's annual "100 Finest Business to Work For" list for having high trust, high worker engagement, and low turnover.
To track the movement in released format over the previous three years, I dug around my own library and numerous web resources, plus the favorites of thought leaders, officers, authors, and academics to figure out which books they feel have had one of the most influence on advancing the servant management movement. 15 Best and A Lot Of Popular Servant Management Books of All Time, While my initial list continues to expand as the movement grows, for this entry (and for the sake of blogging length), I'm narrowing it down to 15 significant books that would appeal to the mainstream, and anyone searching for his or her very first immersion into servant leadership.
Lots of listed below are quite popular, frequently suggested, and referenced in other books and the literature. Author: Ken Melrose, Date: 1995Summary: Melrose, the former CEO of Toro Motor Company, gives us an inside take a look at how servant leadership ended up being the driver for turning the business around. Author: James Hunter, Date: 1998Summary: A great book for novices on their immersion into servant leadership.
To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong management retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery, where he finds the life-altering principles of servant leadership. Author: Jim Collins, Date: 2001Summary: This influential classic ought to be in everyone's book case. Collins when confessed that his staff challenged the concept of calling his book by a servant leadership title, so he opted for Good to Great.
Author: Robert K. Check it Out (modified by Larry C. Spears)Date: 2002Summary: The 25th anniversary edition of this ground-breaking 1977 book consists of all of Greenleaf's timeless text and main concepts as explained in the very first 3 essays that he composed: "The Servant as Leader," "The Organization as Servant," and "Trustees as Servants." A must-have for trainees and diehards of the motion, but I do not suggest it as your very first option if you're at the beginner level.
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