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.

Presents a research-based model for servant leadership and then connects that model to current issues in leadership studies Presents a typology for Leadership and Servant Leadership terms to address the key confusion points within these concepts Offers a non-traditional approach to the understanding and practice of leadership

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

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.