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What is the vision of a Servant-Leader? Why is the Scrum Master the only servant-leader?

Last post 01:29 am August 27, 2019 by Ian Mitchell
3 replies
09:04 pm August 26, 2019

09:28 pm August 26, 2019

Is there anything in Scrum that suggests that no-one else can be a servant-leader?


09:31 pm August 26, 2019

Why is the Scrum Master the only servant-leader?

While the Scrum Guide only uses the term servant-leader when discussing the Scrum Master, I don't believe that they are the only servant-leader.  To me anyone and everyone on a Scrum Team or an agile organization can be a servant-leader. Robert Greenleaf was the first to use the term servant-leader.  Here is a link to the greenleaf.org site where it is discussed.  (https://www.greenleaf.org/what-is-servant-leadership/).  Based on that discussion others you can find on the internet, I feel that the servant-leader mentality plays a very big part in Scrum and that all are willing can be one. 

What is the vision of a Servant-Leader?

This comes from the text at the link I provided above.  "A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong."  


01:29 am August 27, 2019

A Scrum Master ought to exemplify servant leadership, and in so doing might promote servant leadership in others as well.


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