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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (3)
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  • 2000-2004  (3)
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  • Biografie
  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    [s.l.] : Utah State University, University Libraries
    ISBN: 9780874215885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Folklore ; Volkskunde ; Volkskundemuseum ; Archiv ; Volkskundler ; Utah ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biografie ; Führer ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biografie ; Führer ; Utah ; Volkskunde ; Geschichte ; Utah ; Volkskundler ; Utah ; Volkskunde ; Archiv ; Utah ; Volkskundemuseum
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    San Francisco, Calif : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    ISBN: 9781605097169 , 1605097160 , 9781609943837 , 160994383X , 1283268701 , 9781283268707
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 432, [16] p.) , ports.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Frick, Don M., 1946- Robert K. Greenleaf
    DDC: 303.34092
    Keywords: Greenleaf, Robert K. ; Greenleaf, Robert K ; Greenleaf, Robert K ; Executives Biography ; United States ; Business consultants Biography ; United States ; Servant leadership ; Management ; Organizational effectiveness ; Business consultants Biography ; Executives Biography ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Process ; Leadership ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Business ; Business consultants ; Executives ; Management ; Organizational effectiveness ; Servant leadership ; Biographies ; Biographies ; United States ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Biographie
    Abstract: Thousands if not millions of people have heard the term ?servant leadership,? introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in his landmark essay The Servant as Leader, published in 1970. There are now Centers for Servant Leadership in ten countries and counting. His work is regularly cited by some of the most prominent business writers and leaders in the world, such as Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block. And yet until now there has been no biography of the man who first developed this revolutionary idea. Don Frick was given unfettered access to all of Greenleaf?s papers and correspondence. The result is a fascinating book that details the sources of Greenleaf?s thought, describes his friendships with dozens of well-known people, and shows how he influenced business history well before his first book was published at the age of 73, and lived his own life as a servant leader. As Director of Management Research at AT&T for 38 years, Greenleaf was known as ?AT&T?s Kept Revolutionary.? Among other unusual initiatives, he oversaw a novel program which taught executive decision making through great literature, established the first corporate assessment center using knowledge gleaned from the OSS?s approach to training civilian spies during World War II, and invited leading philosophers and theologians to have conversations with AT&T executives. After a period of soul searching and some surprising experiments in consciousness, Greenleaf retired from AT&T and began to develop the concept of servant leadership, the then-heretical notion that leaders lead best by serving their followers rather than ?commanding? them. He continued to promote the idea through teaching, writing, and consulting until his last years, and was instrumental in creating a score of important organizations such as The Center for Creative Leadership and Yokefellow Institute. Always, Greenleaf was a seeker opening himself up to novel experiences and astonishing people. He was a complex person?an introvert who served in public roles, a wise person who refused to give others ?The Answer,? a brilliant thinker who often declared, ?I am not a scholar.? His grave carries the epitaph he wrote for himself: ?Potentially a good plumber; ruined by a sophisticated education.?
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-415) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 3
    Language: German , English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , 25 cm
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Mayr, Franz, 1865 - 1914 "Adieu ihr lieben Schwarzen"
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    Keywords: Mayr, Franz ; Catholic Church Missions ; History ; Catholic Church History ; Missionaries Biography ; Missionaries Biography ; Anthropology ; KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) Church history ; Quelle ; Biografie ; Briefsammlung ; Provinz Natal ; Mission ; Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 1890-1909 ; Simbabwe ; Mission ; Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 1909-1912 ; Swasiland ; Mission ; Katholische Kirche ; Geschichte 1914 ; Südafrika ; Mission ; Mayr, Franz 1865-1914
    Abstract: Als "einen der interessantesten katholischen Missionare im Südlichen Afrika" bezeichnet die Historikerin Joy Brain den Tiroler Priester Franz Mayr in ihrem Vorwort zu dieser umfangreichen Quellenedition. Die gesammelten, aus zahlreichen Archiven im In- und Ausland stammenden Schriften Mayrs, umfassen Briefe, Tagebucheinträge, Auszüge aus Chroniken, seine in Missions- und ethnologischen Zeitschriften und Tageszeitungen erschienenen Artikel sowie zahlreiche zeitgenössische Photographien. Obwohl unser Land bzw. die Habsburger-Monarchie selbst keine Kolonien auf diesem Kontinent besaß, wirkte doch eine beträchtliche Anzahl von ihnen u. a. in katholischen Stationen. Ihre Rolle in der Interaktion mit der einheimischen Bevölkerung und die Wirkung ihrer Missionsartikel auf das Afrikabild ist bisher nahezu unerforscht geblieben. Mayr war nur einer jener Österreicher und Österreicherinnen, die im Zuge der katholischen Missionseuphorie des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts ausreisten, um Afrikaner und Afrikanerinnen zum Christentum zu "bekehren". Er wurde 1865 in der Osttiroler Gemeinde Nussdorf geboren und verbrachte seine Gymnasialzeit in Brixen, wo er auch das Priesterseminar absolvierte. Ab 1890 wirkte er in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Natal (Südafrika), in Südrhodesien (heutiges Zimbabwe) und in Swaziland, wo er 1914 einem Mordanschlag zum Opfer fiel. Unter seiner Leitung entstanden mehrere Missionsstationen u. a. das Projekt "Maryvale", ein Dorf für die einheimischen katholischen Zulus, heute ein Stadtteil von Pietermaritzburg. Über die vorhandenen Quellen erhält man Einblick in den Alltag des Missionars, Informationen über Hemmnisse seiner Arbeit und über Erfolgserlebnisse, seine Einstellung zur afrikanischen Bevölkerung, zur jeweiligen Kolonialregierung, zu anderen Religionsgemeinschaften oder über seinen persönlichen Gemütszustand. F. Mayr schrieb mehrere Bücher in afrikanischen Sprachen, hatte ein Faible für Musik und Photographie und sammelte leidenschaftlich ethnologische Gegenstände, die er teilweise afrikanischen Museen überließ, teilweise für Ausstellungen nach Europa sandte. Erst kürzlich entdeckte man im Herbarium der "Universität von Natal" eine Pflanzensammlung, die er angelegt hatte. Sie wird derzeit von einer Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern ausgewertet und stellt eine der frühesten Dokumentationen über den Gebrauch von Heilpflanzen der Zulus dar. Fast neunzig Jahre nach seinem Tod scheint nun also das Interesse ...
    Abstract: Franz Mayr was "one of the most interesting of catholic missionaries in Southern Africa" states Professor Joy Brain ("University of Durban") in the foreword she wrote for this first edition of his writings. Mayr was born in the Austrian province of Tyrol in 1865, educated as a priest in the diocese of Brixen and arrived in Natal (South Africa) at the beginning of May 1890, inspired by the work being done there by the Trappist-Monks led by Abbot Franz Pfanner. Mayr was physically handicapped and soon left the trappists but just to offer his services to the vicar apostolic of Natal, Bishop Charles Jolivet, who accepted him for work among the African population. He was sent to Pietermaritzburg then capital of the British colony to take over the care of the African parishioners to bring the "good news" to those who had never heard it. He founded several new mission-stations in Natal, Southern Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) and Swaziland where he was killed by a native robber in 1914. Mayr - a man of many talents - was a gifted linguist, studied and published books in several African languages. He was interested in cultural anthropology and collected information about African customs. It is now more than a hundred years since Franz Mayr began his work of evangelisation and scholarship in Southern Africa. Publishing his letters and articles - kept by several archives in Europe - should help to remember a man of the Habsburg-Monarchy who went to preach the gospel to the so called heathen of Africa. Although Austria or Austria-Hungary never owned colonies in Africa many of its inhabitants left their homes to work in catholic mission-stations around the continent. Several introductory chapters in this book explain the particular historical context which has to be put into consideration when reading Mayrs' writings. From there we learn about his life, his work, how he treated the native population, what he thought about other religious congregations around him, the colonialists and about troubles when trying to convince people to believe in the only - the "European God". The missionary deserves to be better known. The present edition of historical sources is to be seen as a most relevant step allowing us to interpret his personality adequately
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturverz. S. [391] - 403
    Note: Text teilw. dt., teilw. engl.
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