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Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant Leadership as a Way of Life
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ISBN-13: | 9780739169490 |
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Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication date: | 11/17/2011 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 246 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Publications Acknowledgments vii
What Is Servant Leadership? ix
Servant Leadership in the Present Day xiii
The Power of Servant Leadership: Foreword Larry C. Spears xvii
Balefire: The World of Violence and Forgiveness: Preface Shann Ray Ferch xxi
Part I Servant Leadership, Forgiveness, and Power
Chapter 1 A Fine Grace 3
Chapter 2 When We Rise 9
Chapter 3 The Dignity of Life 17
Chapter 4 The Eloquent Question 27
Chapter 5 Of Love and Human Violence 37
Chapter 6 Emerson on Love 45
Chapter 7 Sand Creek 53
Chapter 8 The House of Light 61
Part II Personal Consciousness, Interior Fortitude
Chapter 9 Shame and Forgiveness 71
Chapter 10 The Family, the World 81
Chapter 11 The Way of the Child 91
Chapter 12 Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu: Voices of Light in the Dark 101
Chapter 13 The Question of Love and Power: Gratitude, Forgiveness, and the Conscious Cultivation of Servant Leadership 109
Chapter 14 Before the Velvet Revolution: How We Begin to Deepen Our Consciousness 115
Chapter 15 The Practice of Consciousness 123
Chapter 16 Servant Leadership Consciousness and Listening 129
Part III A Narrative of Hope and Responsible Action
Chapter 17 The Inward Road 139
Chapter 18 The Illumined Nature of Persuasion 147
Chapter 19 People of Self-Transcendence 155
Chapter 20 Shadow and Light: Forgiveness, Power, and Love in Practice 165
Chapter 21 A Cree Man's Journey: On Mother Loss and Mother Love 177
Chapter 22 The Nature of the Forgiving Touch: On Father Loss and Father Love 183
Chapter 23 Healing the Heart of the World 193
Acts of Courage and Clarity: Afterword Margaret J. Wheatley 199
Endnotes 211
References 229
Recommended Readings in Servant Leadership 239
Index 241
About the Author 249
Other Publications by Shann Ray Ferch 251
What People are Saying About This
Shann Ferch has written a remarkably comprehensive and convincing exploration of forgiveness as the ground of healing and service, and then applied it to the principles and activities of leadership in the contemporary world. I enthusiastically recommend this volume to those who are not only interested in leadership studies, but also in the deepest dimensions and possibilities of love and the human condition. It is a remarkable antidote to the cynicism underlying some of the new purely pragmatic (and frequently inhuman) leadership theories.
The greatest figures in history, both human and divine, led with forgiveness. In this book, Shann Ferch uncovers the beauty and grit of vulnerable leadership, forgiving leadership, servant leadership. The power of leading with forgiveness offers high hope for our world’s atrocious history and terrifying future.
In a world where hurt and hate dominate the headlines, Shann Ray Ferch is a bold purveyor of peace and love, much in the tradition of Robert Greenleaf. One cannot read this book without experiencing a reflective resolve to live with greater intentionality and purpose.
Read this book if you are ready to live a new horizon. It is unsettling and worthy of every precious moment to read—each page creates an asymmetrical balance of joy, tears, laughter, and resolve. To end atrocity through love and forgiveness… this book is a beam of hope for humankind.
The greatest figures in history, both human and divine, led with forgiveness. In this book, Shann Ferch uncovers the beauty and grit of vulnerable leadership, forgiving leadership, servant leadership. The power of leading with forgiveness offers high hope for our world’s atrocious history and terrifying future.—Bill Robinson, Whitworth University