202104291947 Our purpose as leaders is to serve others

Contrary to the traditional approach to leadership which puts the company and the mission above all else, servant leadership focuses on employees and customers. Instead of employees working to serve a leader, the leader works to serve their employees and teams work to serve their customers.

Being a servant leader means that we share power, put the needs of our teams and employees first, and help people develop personally and professionally as highly as possible. It also means that we 202104291526 Make the hard decisions and follow up by taking on risk and 202104292040 Eat the losses when needed. It means suffering for the team sometimes.

Interesting thought: At first glance it looks like the principle that 202104291524 Execution is the priority of team management is at odds with being a servant leader. If we look closely though, it's clear that these are actually fundamentally tied together. True high performance execution requires this substrate of employee support in order to be possible. (202107291132 Trust is a requirement for higher-level cognitive functions and 202112180933 Psychological safety is the top indicator for group performance)