A phrase that has gained much traction over the last four decades is “servant leadership.” Coined by writer and business consultant Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay “The Servant as Leader,” the term refers to someone who uses qualities like empathy, listening skills, stewardship, and awareness rather than power to assert his or her authority to lead. Certainly leaders of the past offered this kind of authority; as far back as the fourth century B.C., the Chinese thinker and politician Chanakya wrote that “the leader shall consider as good not what pleases him but what pleases his
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