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What is your style of leadership?

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David Olson
Product Line Manager, Siemens
Posted on Nov. 9, 2011
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I practice Servant Leadership.

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Nipun Jethi
Nipun Jethi Replied on Nov. 9, 2011

Am I taking the bait or missing a joke by asking, "Servant Leadership?"

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David Olson
David Olson Replied on Nov. 9, 2011

Servant Leadership is a term coined by Robert Greenleaf. The best definition I can give is his own words:

"The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature."

"The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?"

This is the way I have led people both as a Project Manager and a People Manager for many years. I find the people managed this way have greater work satisfaction and greater output.

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Hariram Subramanian
Hariram Subramanian Replied on Nov. 9, 2011

it sounds for me like a maslow's theory Z Hybrid.

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