Servant Leadership – New wine in Old Wine-skin – By Oscar E.V. Fernando Servant Leadership (SL) is a term, coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in his essay on SL first published in 1970, on propounding a corporate management technique: it says the leader should be affectionately considerate to his subordinate-who in turn will cause a ripple effect. Much waters have flown under the bridge since the Dickensian cruelty to children in the then newly opened factories with the industrial revolution. Following are highlights of the SL theory; A leader should be a person that workers can relate to priority is to serve rather than to command to ensure success and power to the employee. to appreciate that a servant can become a leader only if the leader is first a servant to his subordinate. Such behavior of a leader must result in workers becoming healthier and wiser with self-improvement and eventually ...

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