"Servant Leadership Revisited"
Chapter 2 of "Insights on Leadership" is an essay by Ken Blanchard titled “Servant Leadership Revisited.”
One key idea of this essay is that for servant leadership to work, organizations need to change focus. Blanchard makes this clear when he says, “When you turn the pyramid upside down those roles get reversed. Your people become responsible and the job of management is to be responsive to their people.”
Being a good servant-leader is about helping define goals and then helping those you serve to achieve those goals. The idea of turning the pyramid upside down is something that originally attracted me to servant leadership. The hierarchical organizations I had worked for in the past were not organizations that encouraged creativity, but rather tried to dictate productivity. Management that is responsive to the people is management that has the potential to do real work. Finding ways to transform the pyramid is the key to successful servant leadership.
One key idea of this essay is that for servant leadership to work, organizations need to change focus. Blanchard makes this clear when he says, “When you turn the pyramid upside down those roles get reversed. Your people become responsible and the job of management is to be responsive to their people.”
Being a good servant-leader is about helping define goals and then helping those you serve to achieve those goals. The idea of turning the pyramid upside down is something that originally attracted me to servant leadership. The hierarchical organizations I had worked for in the past were not organizations that encouraged creativity, but rather tried to dictate productivity. Management that is responsive to the people is management that has the potential to do real work. Finding ways to transform the pyramid is the key to successful servant leadership.
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