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.

Autorentext

James Laub is Professor of Leadership Studies at the MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA. He is the President of Servant Leader Performance (SLP) and is the creator of the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) which measures organizational health from a servant leadership perspective.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Purpose of Leadership: Leadership that Moves the World

Chapter 2: The Story of Leadership --The Historical Development of Leadership Thought

Chapter 3: Defining Leadership -- The Critical Role of Definition Making

Chapter 4: Explaining the Servant Mindset -- The OLA Servant Leadership Model

Chapter 5: Model Building for Servant Leadership -- 1991 2016

Chapter 6: Responding to Misconceptions and Objections to Servant Leadership

Chapter 7: The Three Mindsets of Leadership -- Autocratic, Paternalistic, Servant

Chapter 8: The Servant Organization -- Levels of Organizational Health

Chapter 9: Servant Leadership Research Review -- Eighteen Years of OLA Research

Chapter 10: Considering Servant Organization Structures

Chapter 11: Leveraging Servant Leadership Power