The need for new leadership -- Leadership as a quest to serve -- Lessons from the wisdom traditions -- Shaping a syncretic leadership -- Shaping the vision -- Hearing every voice -- Renewing the social contract -- Empowering toward service -- Redesigning higher education -- Trust and consensus during change -- Organizing for service -- Leading as learning -- Barriers to leadership as service -- Leadership for a new century
Summary
"This discussion of leadership in higher education argues that leadership is essentially an act of service; that the more responsible the leadership position, the greater the responsibility to serve. Weaving together the Servant Leadership philosophy of Robert Greenleaf with the management principles of Mary Parker Follett, Farnsworth presents a model for 21st-century educational leadership that calls upon college administrators to see themselves as "servants first.""--BOOK JACKET
