Servant Leadership: Learning From Servant Leaders of the Past and Their Impact to the Future.

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M. Baldonado, Ph.D. ,

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Volume 6 - January 2017 (01)

Abstract

Leadership is all about influencing others to action and setting a positive example to followers. Servant leadership is one of the most influential approaches to leadership and management. This article depicts lessons that can be extracted from the lives of famous servant leaders— Martin Luther King, Jr, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi. These leaders exhibited and role modeled servant leadership in their lives. 

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Servant leaders, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr 

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