International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
In this essay, drawn from his keynote speech at the Greenleaf Center's 1999 conference, Dr. Covey describes what he calls the four roles of leadership-modeling, pathfinding, alignment, and empowerment-using examples and a nautical metaphor. Covey says the true test of leadership is the one that Robert K. Greenleaf described, and that true servant-leadership produces servant-leadership in others. Stephen Covey was a keynote speaker at the Greenleaf Center's 1996 and 1999 annual international conferences. I want to say a word about this conference: it's a beautiful illustration of win-win situations, because servant-leadership is the enabling art to accomplishing any worthy objective. It's glorious to see these two organizationsThe Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and the National Association for Community Leadership-come together and to see others join together and to let go of the ego investment in words, semantics and agendas, to realize the transcendent agenda that unifies us and the transcendent values of respect and service, servant-leadership, and the enabling values. My purpose now is to describe what I call "the four roles of leadership."
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Covey, Stephen R.
(2006)
"Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the 21st Century,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 2, Article 9.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.291
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol2/iss1/9
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