Servant Leadership Is Dead

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Argues that servant leadership no longer suffices for DevOps and instead leadership must facilitate collective and technical transformation: concrete tactics include using coaching kata and A3 for continuous improvement, running blameless experiments inside a CD pipeline, and actively translating between dev, ops, security and biz. Cites enterprise cases (Nordstroms, HP, Target, MSNBC) that report measurable transformation, prescribes emotional self‑awareness, flattened hierarchy, and hands‑on engagement.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:41New Leadership Style
3. 1:28About Allia
4. 9:09Leadership has become handsoff
5. 11:32What do you mean
6. 11:53DevOps leadership style
7. 15:53Scrum masters
8. 19:44Unicorn
9. 22:16Emotional Intelligence
10. 26:39References
11. 29:27Reflection

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