Anna Maria Pircher-Friedrich

Servant Leadership is a philosophically grounded management approach that understands leadership as a helping and supportive endeavor, focusing on three effects during times of high uncertainty: on the people within the organization, on the organization as a whole, and on the organization's environment. The third, completely revised edition of this widely regarded volume offers a broad range of thought-provoking ideas, practical examples, and personal accounts to help enact effective leadership. Leaders from practice, academia, and consulting demonstrate, among other things, how to align leading and serving, the practical ways to individualize leadership, the diverse impact of role modeling, the opportunities that thoughtful questioning provides, how leadership can be enhanced through language, stories, and humor, and what it means to intertwine seemingly opposing concepts. Adapted to current leadership conditions, this new edition serves as an inspiring and innovative source of contemporary leadership knowledge.