Afterword

JAMES P. SHANNON

Students of Robert K. Greenleaf should find the publication of this select collection of essays from his most productive years both timely and useful. Timely, because the number of his followers has grown geometrically in the last two decades; and useful, because this growing company of students is currently very much in need of a single source book that brings together the best of Greenleaf’s separate essays, now available in print only in several discrete publications.

As a young man, Greenleaf was fascinated by his father’s ability to “get things done.” Greenleaf’s father was an engineer and a tinkerer in Terre Haute, Indiana. Through the rest of his life Robert would be searching for those persons who could emulate ...

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