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The current turn to spirituality and values–based leadership
I see our society as urgently in need of strengthening. Awareness of the pervasive alienation among contemporary young people in our country suggests that nurturing the human spirit could become a unifying idea. With all the diversity of religious beliefs and non-beliefs, there is a chance that substantial consensus could be achieved in searching for a basis for this unifying idea in our history and myth.
(Robert K. Greenleaf, 1996d: p. 44)
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© 2010 Corné J. Bekker
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Bekker, C. (2010). A Modest History of the Concept of Service as Leadership in Four Religious Traditions. In: van Dierendonck, D., Patterson, K. (eds) Servant Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299184_5
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