Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve: Spiritual Foundations and Business Applications [Paperback]

This book brings together a number of important essays on the intersection of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship, examining them through a shared focus on the will to serve. This combination bears out the insight that inspiring social and economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. The book seeks to answer the question of whether we can induce from their way of doing things a model of civic entrepreneurship and leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public organizations. It also examines the extent to which the will to serve is compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to gain economic, political or religious power. Furthermore, it asks how far different spiritual traditions create different models and examples of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of business ethics, business spirituality and corporate social responsibility.

Chapter 1:  The Will to Serve: An Anthropological and Spiritual Foundation for Leadership.- Chapter 2: Reading Exodus 18 and Robert Greenleaf.- Chapter 3: Servant Leadership Beyond Servant and Leader: A Buddhist Perspective on the Theory and Practice of Servant Leadership.- Chapter 4: Ipseistic Ethics Beyond Moralism: Rooting the Will to Serve In The Reverence for Life.- Chapter 5: Simone Weil and a Critical Will to Serve.-Chapter 6: The Dark Side of Servant Leadership: Power Abuse via Serving.- Chapter 7: Christianity and Servant Leadership.- Chapter 8: Protecting the Weak and Creating Community.- Chapter 9: Foundations for Social Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Indian Perspective.- Chapter 10: Workplace Spirituality in Social Entrepreneurship: Motivation for Serving the Common Good.- Chapter 11: Mindful Servant Leadership for l“>