![]() I found the most thought provoking of the seven essays in Section 1 to be Ipseistic Ethics Beyond Moralism: Rooting the “Will to Serve” in “The Reverence for Life” by Chris Doude van Troostwijk and The Dark Side of Servant Leadership: Power Abuse via Serving by Volker Kessler.ĭespite its title, the former is very readable. Section 1 (Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations) The general movement through the collection is from concepts to practice, although there is plenty of overlap. There are three sections: (1) Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations (2) Social Entrepreneurship: Serving the Common Good (3) Servant Leadership in the Context of Business. ![]() It is difficult to summarise such a diverse set of essays, and even the over-arching theme of servant leadership seemed not to be dominant. Those responsibilities have at times been largely overlooked in the single-minded search for profit, which in turn has shaped the kind of leadership the corporate sector has embraced and this volume is a helpful contribution to a growing literature that urges a wider view of what makes for good leadership (whether described using ‘servant’ language or not), as well as a broader view of the very purpose of business and enterprise itself. Originally the granting of ‘limited liability’ was seen as a privilege that brought responsibilities towards the community. I found some of the papers stronger than others but I enjoyed reading all of them, and was left with ideas and questions about re-discovering a wider view of how businesses and companies operate within society. The authors are very diverse, with global perspectives offered, although there is an inevitable impression at certain moments that one is eavesdropping on a room full of academics talking to one another and there is some repetition, notably when it comes to the description of what ‘servant leadership’ might be. ![]() The organising principle is an enquiry as to whether the ‘will to serve’ must always be ‘crowded out in the real economic arena of hard competition’ (page vi). This book is a collection of eighteen separate but thematically connected papers which were given at an international academic conference in Belgium in May 2018. ![]()
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