Since the publication of his first essay The Servant as Leader in 1970, Robert Greenleaf's writings on servant- leadership have powerfully influenced management training, education and evaluation, experiential learning, organizational development, seminary education, foundation work, religious missions and practice, corporate ethics, trusteeship and a dozen other fields in profit, non-profit and government organizations; and that influence is growing. Since Greenleaf's death in 1990, new volumes of his writing and scores of books on the ideas and applications of servant-leadership have been published. In spite of all the interest, this is the first biography of the man who first lived the servant- leader philosophy, created the term and applied it to management and organizations. This book is authorized by Greenleaf's surviving children.

Don M. Frick co-edited the book On Becoming a Servant Leader and contributed chapters to other books on the subject of servant leadership. He brings Robert K. Greenleaf to life through his eclectic studies in communications, theology, leadership, psychology, history and ethics -- and his experience as an independent writer, trainer, consultant to some of America's major corporations, college teacher, former part-time employee of the Greenleaf Center in Indianapolis, on-air talent, and media producer with over 250 radio, television, and corporate scripts to his credit