Servant leadership, which fundamentally overthrows the existing leadership paradigm, was started by Robert K. Greenleaf in the late 1970s. It emphasizes that leaders serve first, not dominate, unlike heroic leadership that emphasizes individual leader...
Servant leadership, which fundamentally overthrows the existing leadership paradigm, was started by Robert K. Greenleaf in the late 1970s. It emphasizes that leaders serve first, not dominate, unlike heroic leadership that emphasizes individual leaders’ outstanding abilities or charisma, or authoritarian leadership that adheres to the skills of instruction and control of members.
This type of leadership is not just a leader’s skill that applies to leaders, but the basis of human relationships that all mature humans should have. Servant leadership is not a leadership based on hierarchical pyramid-style human relationships, but is horizontal, and more fundamentally, it has an inverse pyramid-style value system that subverts the understanding of existing power.
Therefore, in order to properly understand servant leadership, a type of leadership that is difficult to be easily accepted in reality without a deeper self-understanding, understanding of others, and an in-depth understanding of the power acting between human beings. This paper conducted an in-depth review of humans and power as a preliminary work for the access to servant leadership.