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Leading Through Service in Practice,ics unique to servant leaders. As Bruce Winston and Dail Fields observed, servant leadership requires having the desire to serve others. And yet, it is not enough to know what constitutes servant leadership—you also need to practice it. Thus, you need to go from head knowledge to hands-on application.

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Why Assigned Leaders,errible job leading my engineering team? What did he mean by this? I mean, I had been a stellar software engineer before being promoted into a managerial leadership position. Everyone had appreciated my work in my previous role and would ask for my help whenever they had problems. I had been the res

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The Agile Game,Some individuals go as far as to suggest that software is eating the world. Software continues to play an increasingly vital role in business success in almost every sector imaginable. Many product and service companies rely on software solutions as part of their business strategy. Many businesses h

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Making Sense of Cultural Plurality,tures. I made this mistake in the early 2000s while establishing a software development team in Bangalore, India. I assumed that my leadership approach—developed in the United States—was appropriate for my new teams. Unfortunately, I did not appreciate the cultural differences between the two countr

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Organizational Culture: Friend or Foe?,was meeting with team members to learn more about them and the organization. I asked them to share what they thought about the software development organization—its strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, all I heard were complaints. This was not the first (and I doubt it will be the last) time in

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Leading with a Heart of Service,pens in your firm—including how you develop products. Effective leaders provide their teams with the support needed to achieve organizational goals. An Agile principle is to “Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job d

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Leading Through Service in Practice, leadership limitations. I shared that servant leaders attend to others’ needs by practicing various behaviors using a combination of ten characteristics unique to servant leaders. As Bruce Winston and Dail Fields observed, servant leadership requires having the desire to serve others. And yet, it i

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Leading Through Change,hip context for many (if not most) leaders often includes a healthy amount of change. Leaders need to understand their leadership system context so that they lead appropriately. The product development context experiences constant change in at least three ways. First, product development organizatio

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Adaptive Leadership in Practice,s everywhere tried to control the spread of the disease. While the COVID-19 pandemic is not the first pandemic the world has faced, it had been over 100 years since society had faced a health challenge of such global proportions. The pandemic presented an adaptive challenge because the problems and

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Follow Well, Lead Well,this executive would recognize my excellent work and tell me how well I was doing. But I could not have been more wrong. The executive let me know that my newly appointed leader, Chidibere, found it challenging to work with me. Chidiebere complained that I responded with much hesitation and reluctan