What is servant leadership? -- Servant leadership in the present day -- The power of servant leadership / foreword by Larry C. Spears -- Balefire: the world of violence and forgiveness / preface by Shann Ray Ferch -- Servant leadership, forgiveness, and power -- A fine grace -- When we rise -- The dignity of life -- The eloquent question -- Of love and human violence -- Emerson on love -- Sand Creek -- The house of light -- Personal consciousness, interior fortitude -- Shame and forgiveness -- The family, the world -- The way of the child -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu -- The question of love and power -- Before the velvet revolution -- The practice of consciousness -- Servant leadership consciousness and listening -- A narrative of hope and responsible action -- The inward road -- The illumined nature of persuasion -- People of self-transcendence -- Shadow and light -- A Cree man's journey -- The nature of the forgiving touch -- Healing the heart of the world -- Acts of courage and clarity / afterword by Margaret J. Wheatley -- Endnotes.