Something To Hang Your Hat On: The Limits of Servant Leadership

I’ve always had a rub with the concept of servant leadership.

Coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay “The Servant as Leader,” servant leadership is popular with executive types. They typically use the term to soften the top-down, authoritarian idea of the CEO that lives in lots of people’s heads.

Sure, it does sound nice that a CEO would primaril…