John Dickson, Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership. Zondervan, 2011. Referenced in: Leadership Development through Character Formation Leadership Approaches, Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an excellent development of a key characteristic of servant leadership, humility. The author defines humility as “the noble choice to forego your status, deploy your resources or
Calvin Miller, The Empowered Leader: 10 Keys to Servant Leadership. Broadman and Holman Academic, 1997. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This insightful book is a valid addition to the plethora of leadership resources. Like most Christian literature on the subject, Miller takes the servant/empowerment oriented principles from the corporate arena and looks at them
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
Kenneth Blanchard, Mark Miller and John Maxwell, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know -and Do. Berrett-Koehler, 2004. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a parable about a manager who learns from her mentor about how to inspire and develop others through “servant leadership.” The story illustrates the empowering, servant leader model. The essential
Kenneth Blanchard and Phil Hodges, Servant Leader: Transforming Your Heart, Head, Hands and Habits. Thomas Nelson, 2003. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is one of several books by Ken Blanchard on servant leadership. It is probably not the first book to read on the subject, but still makes useful contributions. His “Twelve Steps
Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Hybels and Phil Hodges, Leadership by the Book: Tools to Transform Your Workplace. William Morrow, 1999. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This volume conveys the principles of servant leadership through Blanchard’s signature story format. This time the dialogue is between a professor and a minister who mentor a young professional in.
Kenneth Blanchard and Phil Hodges, Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time. Thomas Nelson, 2008. Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary Here the authors explain the concepts that are introduced in the story-formatted Leadership by the Book, and organize the principles of servant leadership into 365 devotionals around a
James W. Sipe and Don M. Frick, The Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership: Practicing the Wisdom of Leading by Serving. Paulist Press, 2009. Companion volume: Greenleaf and Spears, Servant Leadership Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a development of the Greenleaf Servant Leadership philosophy that is built upon seven pillars. A person of
James C. Hunter, The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader. Waterbrook Press, 2004. Prequel: Hunter, The Servant Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a follow up to Hunter’s first volume on the subject, The Servant. It is a more organized presentation of what The Servant conveys in story
James C. Hunter, The Servant: A Simple Story about the True Essence of Leadership. Crown Business, 1998. Sequel: Hunter, The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle Referenced in: Servant Leadership LifeandLeadership.com Summary One of the best ways to learn the principles of leadership is through the form of story. James Hunter captures the essence of servant
