Description
This book provides a consistent model to understand leadership as a dynamic combination of vision, action, mobilization, and change. It puts servant leadership into a historical and theoretical context while providing a research-based approach and conceptual model that deepens our understanding of the topic. Further, it provides ways to implement this approach to leadership in real organizational settings. The goal is to bridge the gap between scholarly research and the practical realities of leadership within organizations, communities, and society at large. The author presents the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) and model with research support which will guide students and leaders in evaluating organizational health and effectiveness.
Table of Contents
1. The Purpose of Leadership: Leadership that Moves the World.- 2. The Story of Leadership --The Historical Development of Leadership Thought.- 3. Defining Leadership -- The Critical Role of Definition Making.- 4. Explaining the Servant Mindset -- The OLA Servant Leadership Model.- 5. Model Building for Servant Leadership -- 1991 – 2016.- 6. Responding to Misconceptions and Objections to Servant Leadership.- 7. The Three Mindsets of Leadership -- Autocratic, Paternalistic, Servant.- 8. The Servant Organization -- Levels of Organizational Health.- 9. Servant Leadership Research Review -- Eighteen Years of OLA Research.- 10. Considering Servant Organization Structures.- 11. Leveraging Servant Leadership Power.- 12. Mindshifting -- The Critical Thinking Leader.- 13. Implementing Servant Leadership to Move the World.
