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Your Community College
Even
if you have an advanced degree (or two), your local
community college can be a valuable resource in many
ways. Here are five ways your community college can
help you. Read...
BOOKS
The
Servant-Leadership Series:
Practicing
Servant-Leadership: How to Succeed Through Trust, Bravery,
and Forgiveness, 2004, Jossey-Bass. Released in September,
2004, this excellent book includes essays from the Greenleaf
Center's Voices of Servant-Leadership Series, plus additional
material by Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears, Michele
Lawrence, and a Foreword by Warren Bennis. To order online,
go to www.greenleaf.org/catalog/ and look under "Recent
Books from the Greenleaf Center."
Servant-Leadership:
A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness,
by Robert K. Greenleaf, 1977, Paulist Press. Greenleaf
is the patron saint of the humanistic management movement
and this is the book that started it all. The perfect
beginning in studies in management theory.
On
Becoming a Servant-Leader,
by Robert K. Greenleaf, 1996, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Dozens of essays to continue the study of servant-leadership.
Includes a foreword by management guru Peter F. Drucker.
Reflections
on Leadership,
Larry C. Spears, Editor, 1995, John Wiley & Sons.
After Greenleaf's death, the Servant-Leadership series
of books began to include essays by today's top management
thinkers.
The
Power of Servant-Leadership,
Robert K. Greenleaf, 1998 Berrett Koehler. A collection
of unpublished essays by Greenleaf. Edited by Larry C.
Spears after Greenleaf's death.
Focus
on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the 21st Century,
Edited by Larry C. Spears & Michelle Lawrence, 2002,
John Wiley & Sons. The latest collection of essays
by the disciples of Greenleaf. Includes a foreword by
Ken Blanchard.
More
Books:
Leadership
is an Art,
Max DePree, 1989, Dell Publishing. Once the head of the
most respected company it its field, DePree offers his insights
into leadership and management.
Making
a Life, Making a Living,
Mark Albion, 2000, Warner Books. For those who want to do
more than bring home a paycheck, this book will help create
a career that feeds the spirit as much as it does the bank
account.
Make
a Name for Yourself,
Robin Fisher Roffer, 2000, Broadway Books. A top brand strategist,
Roffer offers 8 steps to help you create a successful brand
strategy. Although it was written for women, the advice
it offers can be used by anyone, and can be modified for
use by small-medium businesses.
Time
Management for Dummies, 2nd Edition, Jeffrey J. Mayer,
1999. IDG Books. Mayer may well be the world's foremost
authority on cleaning up clutter and time management. The
author of numerous books on time management, he has consulted
to numerous Fortune 500 companies. In this book his basic
principles are outlined in an easy-to-follow format with
a casual tone. Don't be put off by the name; this book is
worth every penny for those of us who are "organizationally
challenged."
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ORGANIZATIONS
The
Spears Center for Servant-Leadership
www.spearscenter.org
329 Garden Grace Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46239
317-416-8218
Founded
by Larry Spears after seventeen years at the helm of the
Greenleaf Center. Larry was (and still is!) a very important
mentor to Lane as he expanded his consulting/training to
include humanistic management and service-based sales.
The
Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership
www.greenleaf.org
921 East 86th Street, Suite 200
Indianapolis, IN 46240
317-259-1241 - phone
317-259-0560 - fax
The
center that bears his name continues to promote the principles
codified by Greenleaf.
The
World Business Academy
www.worldbusiness.org
428 Bryant Circle, Suite 109
Ojai, CA 93023
805-640-3713 - phone
805-640-9914 - fax
Founded
(and still run) by Rinaldo Brutoco, the Academy promotes
socially responsible business with a wide variety of programs
and publications.
6
Seconds
www.6seconds.org
316 Seville Way
San Mateo, CA 94402
650-685-9885 - phone
650-685-9880 - fax
Promotes
the use of Emotional Intelligence (the management of emotions
in oneself and dealing with the emotions of others).
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