interesting case on why servant leadership is often passive aggressive and I like the clear argument by using the two words separately, servant and leadership. Well done 👏🏽
Thanks. It's bugged me for a decade since I took the training and then dealt with the Scrum Masters who contantly claim their own 'servant leadership.' I never wanted anything to do with them and it took me a bit to really figure out why.
In my experience, the difficulty lies in understanding that responsibility… the accountability and authority piece… isn’t about control. Leaders avoid being proactive with setting direction and holding standards, then end up compensating with passive-aggressive or punitive authority after the fact. Your separation of servant and leadership really nails why this happens… servanthood doesn’t mean abandoning the leadership part.
Great, insightful piece. Now I know why I often clashed with my bosses in several jobs. I remember one performance review where I was downgraded because, “your people like you too much.” this, despite the fact that we exceeded every goal given us in a very challenging environment.
interesting case on why servant leadership is often passive aggressive and I like the clear argument by using the two words separately, servant and leadership. Well done 👏🏽
Thanks. It's bugged me for a decade since I took the training and then dealt with the Scrum Masters who contantly claim their own 'servant leadership.' I never wanted anything to do with them and it took me a bit to really figure out why.
In my experience, the difficulty lies in understanding that responsibility… the accountability and authority piece… isn’t about control. Leaders avoid being proactive with setting direction and holding standards, then end up compensating with passive-aggressive or punitive authority after the fact. Your separation of servant and leadership really nails why this happens… servanthood doesn’t mean abandoning the leadership part.
Great, insightful piece. Now I know why I often clashed with my bosses in several jobs. I remember one performance review where I was downgraded because, “your people like you too much.” this, despite the fact that we exceeded every goal given us in a very challenging environment.
"Your people like you too much" was a downgrade‽ That's absurd. That's is such a bad tell on their leadership style.