An Introduction to Servant Leadership

Syed is an experienced project manager with more than 14 years of ICT experience, successfully delivering high-value key projects across all domains of ICT services.

  Governance   Leadership   Talent Management  

Leadership is and will always remain a key learning topic for all enthusiasts in project management and other related domains. We are fascinated to learn it, practice it and excel in it with every aspect of the day-to-day skills required of us to manage projects of organizational and strategic importance.

There are many leadership traits already in practice and known to many of us. Many young project leaders adopt them based on their level of comfort. Whatever we have learned about leadership, our desire for more knowledge is never satisfied--there might be many new, unexplored areas of learning. 

The purpose of this article is to bring forward one of the very well-known leadership practices called “Servant Leadership”. I’ll explore its prominence in today’s project management world and how it can benefit emerging project leaders in managing teams, projects and organizations.

An Argument Worth Revisiting
Some 2,500 years ago, Socrates argued that leadership is always situational: a leader has qualities and especially professional or technical knowledge that are specific to the situation, hence not transferable. But he also argued the other side of the coin: A good business leader, he said, would also make a good military commander as both shared certain generic leadership skills--such as being good at choosing the best people to …

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