The Undergraduate Journal of Servant Leadership
Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minnesota)
In collaboration with
The Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis, Indiana)
2012
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Journal Editor
Larry C. Spears
President & CEO, The Spears Center for Servant-Leadership
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Journal Advisor
Richard Leider
Founder/Chairman, The Inventure Group
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Gustavus Adolphus College
Jack Ohle
President, Gustavus Adolphus College
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Gustavus Center for Servant Leadership
Jeff Stocco
Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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Rev. Grady St. Dennis
Associate Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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Chris Johnson
Associate Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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Jeffrey Rathlef
Associate Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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Amy Pehrson
Assistant Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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Dave Newell
Assistant Director, Center for Servant Leadership
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The Best Test of Servant-Leadership
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or at least not be further deprived?
—Robert K. Greenleaf
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