Maintaining control is of the utmost importance. Policing, auditing, monitoring, and surveillance are evident throughout the organization. The influence of ideas or individuals from outside the management class are avoided or ignored. Due to the closed nature of the system, the organization s view of reality over time becomes more distorted and inbred as entropy sets in. In contrast, an entrepreneurial organizational culture focuses on people.
Power is used for service, and work is integrated with managing.
Control is placed close to where the work is actually performed, and local units are encouraged to innovate practices that fit local situations. Robert Greenleaf, who died in 1990, is considered to be the father of modern servant-leadership. Rather, servant-leadership has been around for thousands of years. Servant-leadership is successful because it is based on timeless and universal principles. Practices based on these principles result in a commitment to the growth of people, listening, empathy, stewardship, and the building of community.