Ken Jennings, John Stahl-Wert, and Kenneth Blanchard, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions that Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.
Referenced in: Servant Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is a story about a young leader’s journey into learning and practicing five tenets of servant leadership:
- Upend the pyramid
- Raise the bar
- Blaze the trail
- Build on strength
- Run to great purpose
The essential principles are similar to those developed in Blanchard’s more substantive volumes, Leadership by the Book and Lead Like Jesus.
From the Publisher
Mike Wilson is a respected consultant charged with the task of building a new practice area in leadership development. During the new project, he learns that his father is very ill and wants his only child to come home and help him with “a few projects.” Mike’s father is a well-known, retired CEO, and Mike gets his boss’s blessing to take as much time as he needs. Unbeknownst to him, Mike’s father and boss, longtime friends, have plotted this visit to help Mike learn some needed leadership and life lessons. So begins this compelling narrative that combines a very human story with the classical Greenleaf theory of servant leadership. The second book in the acclaimed Ken Blanchard series (called “powerful testimony” by Brad Orr, CEO of John Burnham & Co) is both a practical guide for effective leadership and a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires.
About the Authors
Kenneth R Jennings, Ph.D. is a senior partner at VentureWorks. He delivers engagements to clients in leadership development, strategy, and the management of change. He is a faculty member in the Global Business Partnership at the University of Michigan Business School. Ken is also an advisor to Bethel College in the area of serving leadership and executive leadership development. Ken was previously a partner at Accenture. Prior to Accenture Ken served as a military officer around the world in various leadership roles. He is still active in advising new initiatives in Homeland Defense. His last book, Changing Health Care; Creating Tomorrow’s Winning Health Enterprise focused on the key strategies used by leading health organizations to transform healthcare.
John D. Stahl-Wert is president of Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, a 25-year-old community building collaborative in Pittsburgh that has created fifty social sector organizations, distributed $82 million for these projects, leveraging an additional $500 million of direct, measurable impact. John leads a staff of 25 diverse, multi-sector leaders who in turn manage $15 million of annual work to improve the life conditions and self-sufficiency of the poor. John is a faculty member in Geneva College’s Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership, where he teaches courses in serving leadership, ethics, and decision making.
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