Servant Leadership
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Servant leadership = the person who wants to lead well makes the team win - unblocks, coaches, takes blame upward, shares credit downward.
The corporate ladder rewards visibility; this principle runs the other way. Wash feet in the sprint, not only in the all-hands speech. Gospel depth: Humility and Service. I can explain this in a leadership book club without opening a sermon.
Example
I got promoted and caught myself delegating only the boring work while keeping the visible wins. Servant leadership meant taking the messy incident postmortem myself and putting the junior who fixed it in the demo.
Note Relationships
| Relationship | Wikilink | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| alternative | Let Your Light Shine | Serve the team vs perform visibility when credit is the real goal |
| contradicts | Pareto Principle | when I protect my 20% status and treat everyone else as support staff |
| extends | Humility and Service | Jesus' upside-down ladder — same move in standups and 1:1s |





