Robert K. Greenleaf a leadership crisis and that I should do what I could about it.” In 1970 Greenleaf published his first essay, entitled "The Servant As Leader", which introduced the term "servant leadership." Later, the essay was expanded into a book, which is perhaps one of the most influential management texts yet written. The Servant Leadership movement was born. Of his philosophy, Robert Greenleaf wrote in "Essentials", "The servant-leader is servant first... Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different
Follett's Modern American Usage place on the shelf beside Fowler." Poet and critic Mark Van Doren wrote "This is a book that any conscientious writer will continue to consult as long as he lives." Clifton Fadiman wrote: "A work comparable to Fowler's classic "Modern English Usage". Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote in "The New York Times": "Few have been more outspoken [in their attack on the permissive view] than the late Wilson Follett; and his "Modern American Usage" ... may be taken as the most detailed and sustained attack so far on the notion that anything goes – or should go." The critic and author Louis