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We like it because… it creates interesting debate”
We like it because… it creates interesting debate”
The concept of servant leadership has become popular since it was introduced by Robert Greenleaf in a 1970 essay, but Mitch Maidique, a professor of management at Florida International University, says it still leaves open the question of who you are truly serving: yourself, your group, or society at large? He explores the notion on Harvard Working Knowledge, developing a topology of six levels of leadership, from sociopath to transcendent.
Nobody fits totally in any one style; we are all a mixture, he says, with one type dominant.