Servant leadership seems to be a growing buzzword in cyber
security.
Robert K. Greenleaf coined the words "servant-leader"
and "servant leadership" in 1970 with the publication of his classic
essay, The Servant as Leader.
Greenleaf wrote: "The
servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one
wants to serve, to serve first. ....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......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?"
I’m hearing the term everywhere. If as broadly true as the commonness of the term, that's a great step forward. Employee retention in this market demands it from cyber leadership.
Servant leadership is an essential element of successful digital transformation.
Some leaders even use the term to describe themselves.
Wait.
What?!?
What?!?
Servant leader should be a term that others use about
someone else, not one that they use about themselves.
Your prioritization for others and their welfare is in the eye of the beholder.
That perception is in every thing that you do.
Big and small.
Big and small.
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