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Everything needs servant leadership. The whole idea of servant leadership is so unbelievably powerful that it spawned a religion that managed to convince the Eu
by vinceguidry 8y ago
Everything needs servant leadership. The whole idea of servant leadership is so unbelievably powerful that it spawned a religion that managed to convince the European world that there's a magical servant leader that was sent down to teach and serve us, and regular non-magical non-servant leaders killed him because magical leadership threatened them. People believed it, and still do to this day, because that's just the way people want to live.
A new doctrine isn't helpful. There's no new gospel to spread, the old gospel was good enough. The reason you don't see servant leadership everywhere in business is because people have different priorities and it's really hard to get them to line up. When priorities don't line up you need a class of people whose job it is to manage the disconnect and ensure that the people paying the salaries are getting what they're want, because the mismatch in priorities means they can't trust the ICs.
Servant leadership, being led by someone who has both your interests in mind, and who also thinks like you, would flatten the hierarchy so less of that ugly management business is needed. But the real answer to this dilemma, the other side of the coin of the rise of Christianity, is that you have to adapt to your masters. Christianity only became successful because they managed to become Roman, to embody Roman ideals and engage with Roman people. Only in this way could the cult of Jesus have spread so far that 400 years after its inception, it became the official creed of the Roman Empire.
A fact you miss in Sunday School.