Leading Despite Your Boss

OK, so you have bought into the idea of servant-leadership. So how do you become an effective servant-leader when your boss casts a rather large negative shadow over the organization? It is a question I hear quite often from students.

Here is an article from HR Magazine that gives some suggestions. While the suggestions listed, along with any other concrete suggestions that could be offered, will not fix the situation that we may find ourselves in, they are worth taking a look at.