Servant Leadership in seven rules
My favorite leadership approach is servant leadership! While leadership is needed for different reasons and is expressed in different ways, it is clear that certain styles of leadership are better suited for specific situations, characters of teams, groups and organisations. Therefore: this blog entry about servant leadership... because it works for me! Note that this blog entry talks of teams... Teams which could be organizations, be hierarchical, etc... Servant leadership is not about structure but about method. Let's start by expressing a complementary view: what is not servant leadership. At the extreme we could mention dictatorship, but that would not help us much, and is in fact not complementary. Instead, it is better to bring up followership in which team members follow their leader. Let's now start with three defining aspects of followership: Leader with followership: Team leader communicates expectations, team members follow with goal to meet expectations ...