Contents

Foreword by John C. Maxwell

Introduction: Serve First and Lead Second Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell

Part One

Fundamentals of Servant Leadership

1. What Is Servant Leadership?

Ken Blanchard

2. Characteristics of Servant Leaders

Larry C. Spears

3. Servant Leadership Is Conscious Leadership

Raj Sisodia

4. Servant Leadership at the Speed of Trust

Stephen M. R. Covey

5. Great Leaders SERVE

Mark Miller

6. Servant Leadership: What Does It Really Mean?

Mark A. Floyd

7. Servant Leaders Create a Great Place to Work for All

Michael C. Bush

8. The Leader as Shepherd

Holly Culhane

9. The Evolution of Servant Leadership

Simon Sinek

Part Two

Elements of Servant Leadership

10. One Question Every Servant Leader Should Ask

Marshall Goldsmith

11. In the Service of Others: When Leaders Dare to Rehumanize Work

Brené Brown

12. Servant Leaders Celebrate Others

Tom Mullins

13. The Servant Leader’s Focus

James Ferrell

14. What You See Determines How You Serve

Chris Hodges

15. Compassion: The Heart of Servant Leadership

Craig Groeschel

16. How to Spot Ideal Team Players

Patrick Lencioni

17. The Servant Leader Identity

Laurie Beth Jones

18. The Four Corners of the Leader’s Universe

Henry Cloud

Part Three

Lessons in Servant Leadership

19. Finding Your Voice

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

20. A Lesson from My Father: Washing Feet

Phyllis Hennecy Hendry

21. The Puddle Is Not the Problem

Neal Nybo

22. Five Army-Tested Lessons of Servant Leadership

Jeffrey W. Foley

23. A Baptism of Leadership

Erwin Raphael McManus

24. Little Things and Big Things

Jon Gordon

25. In Praise of Followership

Margie Blanchard

Part Four

Exemplars of Servant Leadership

26. Jesus: The Greatest Example of a Servant Leader

Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges

27. Andrew Young: Partner in Servant Leadership to Martin Luther King Jr.

John Hope Bryant

28. Pat Summitt: Steely Eyes, Servant Heart

Tamika Catchings

29. Dallas Willard: The Smartest Man I Ever Met

Tony Baron

30. Henry Blackaby: A Lifelong Servant Leader

Richard Blackaby

31. Frances Hesselbein: To Serve Is to Live

Jim Dittmar

32. Charlie “Tremendous” Jones: A Sermon Seen

Mark Sanborn

Part Five

Putting Servant Leadership to Work

33. Treat Your People as Family

Colleen Barrett

34. Developing and Using Servant Leadership in the Military

Robin Blanchard

35. Leading Is Serving

Dave Ramsey

36. Serving from an HR Perspective

Shirley Bullard

37. It’s How You Treat People

James H. Blanchard

38. How Servant Leadership Has Shaped Our Church Culture

Miles McPherson

Part Six

Servant Leadership Turnarounds

39. Out of the Flames, into the Light

Art Barter

40. Serve the People

Cheryl Bachelder

41. Waste Connections: A Servant Leadership Success Story

Rico Maranto

42. Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A

Garry Ridge

Final Comments: The Power of Love, Not the Love of Power

Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell

Acknowledgments

Index

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