Bliki: Host Leadership

If you've hung around agile circles for long, you've probably heard about the concept of servant leadership, that managers should think of themselves as supporting the team, removing blocks, protecting them from the vagaries of corporate life. That's never sounded quite right to me, and a recent conversation with Kent Beck nailed why - it's gaslighting. The manager claims to be a servant, but everyone knows who really has the power. My colleague Giles Edwards-Alexander told me about an alternati