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Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Larry C. Spears and Michele Lawrence

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  • Dee HockChapter contributor
    Hock contributes chapter 22, Leadership and the Chaordic Age, pp. 305–320. Spears and Lawrence edit the collection. This records his contribution; it does not establish that he read or endorsed all other chapters.
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Summary

Larry C. Spears and Michele Lawrence bring together essays on serving others while leading individuals, workplaces, communities and wider institutions. The collection includes Robert Greenleaf’s foundational ideas, a foreword by Ken Blanchard and contributions from writers working in business and public life. Its workplace section addresses partnership, organizational thinking and the business case for servant-leadership. Other chapters consider boards, education, philanthropy and creativity. Dee Hock contributes Leadership and the Chaordic Age, which examines organizations that combine cooperation with competition and remain capable of learning and change. The varied contributions let readers compare how the same broad leadership idea is interpreted in different settings and at different scales.

  • SourceWiley — Focus on Leadership · Description and complete Table of Contents, Parts One–Four; Ken Blanchard foreword; editor and contributor credits.
  • SourceLicensed original Focus on Leadership preview · Public licensed preview-search results for original book ouELEAAAQBAJ: pp. 305, 313 and 319; competition/cooperation and continuous organizational learning. Contents identifies Hock’s chapter pp. 305–320.

Why read it Our view

Use the workplace and board chapters to review whom your leadership serves and how decisions reach the people doing the work. In Hock’s chapter, compare shared duties with room for independent action.