Robert K. Greenleaf and Lilly Endowment, Inc. He continued writing, fine-tuning his ideas and focusing them on several different areas of leadership. For example, to apply Servant Leadership to an organizational level, he wrote "The Institution as Servant". For educators he wrote "The Leadership Crisis: A Message for College and University Faculty" and "Teacher as Servant". Other writings targeted seminaries, personal growth, religious leaders, and trustees, among others. Greenleaf influenced a whole generation. In 1985, the Center for Applied Ethics changed its name to the "Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership". Though Greenleaf died in 1990, the Center continued his work; in 1996 it
Robert K. Greenleaf the needs of followers are holy and legitimate, and the leaders use of power arises from the consent of the followers. Greenleaf was very focused on action and ends, and he held a Sabbath attitude about organizational life. Like Christ, who said “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” Greenleaf believed that institutions should serve people. He also felt that he was on the threshold of an important historical moment, of a paradigm shift in the collective American response to formal authority. "A fresh critical look is being taken at the issues of power and authority,