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Robert K. Greenleaf: A Short Biography
Greenleaf on his 80th Birthday
The ideas behind servant leadership are ancient, but Robert K. Greenleaf is the person who first articulated them for our time. Greenleaf was born in in Terre Haute, Indiana at the height of that city’s robust participation in the Industrial Revolution. His father, George, was a wizard mechanic and machinist who also acted as a community steward. In his last published writing, Greenleaf said his father was his original model for a servant-leader.
Greenleaf attended Rose Polytechnic (an engineering school) in Terre Haute for several years, then transferred to Carleton College in Minnesota. He graduated as a math major in and promptly got a job with AT&T, then one of the largest organizations in the world. A teacher had convinced Greenleaf that large institutions were not doing a good job of serving individuals or the larger society, so Bob’s mission was to have a career of quiet influence of ideas from inside one of those big businesses.
Bob & Esther Greenleaf in the s
In , Greenleaf was transferred to AT&T headquarters in Manhattan. He soon met and married Esther Hargrave, a gifted architect and artist who opened her husband to modern art, intuition, books he might never have read, and o
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About Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin () was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
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Ursula Kroeber was born in and grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents were anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi. She attended Radcliffe College and did graduate work at Columbia University. She married historian Charles A. Le Guin, in Paris in ; they lived in Portland, Oregon, beginning in , and had three children and four grandchildren. Le Guin died peacefully in her home in January,
Few American writers have done work of such high quality in so many forms. Her oeuvre comprises 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories and novellas, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five collections of essays, and four v
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Karl Marx
German-born theorist (–)
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