Community Book Club

Join us for the Junior League of Macon Community Book Club on Servant Leadership. The first book club meeting will be held on Monday, April 25th at 6:30pm at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. Panelists will be Rebecca Grist, Jessica Walden, and Rob Betzel. The next session is Tuesday, April 26th at 10:30am at Barnes & Boble. Panelists will be Stacey Harwell-Dye and Mike Peed.

The Junior League of Macon is encouraging its members and people in the community to read “Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness” by Robert Greenleaf, and meet up at planned discussion groups around town to discuss the role of a servant leader.

Robert Greenleaf’s innovative book, which was originally published in 1970, has been extremely popular and has even launched a leadership institute called the Robert K Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. 

According to the Center, “Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world.”

While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said:

“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.”

Please join us on Monday evening or Tuesday morning to discuss the role of a Servant Leader. Copies of the book are available for purchase at Barnes & Noble.