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Video: Thursday, 3 April 2014

Move over dominant, controlling, power-hungry boss – here’s the servant leader! Servant leaders do not consider themselves above those they lead. Rather, they are primus inter pares, Latin for "first among equals." Servant leaders see the ones they lead as peers to teach and to learn from. RSM’s Dirk van Dierendonck introduces us to the benefits of this new way of leading your company forward.

A leader needs to create the conditions so that employees can be the best they can be

prof.dr. D. (Dirk) van Dierendonck
Professor of Human Resource Management
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Dirk van Dierendonck

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