SCRUMstudy — Lead, Follow, Scrum!
When something goes wrong with a project, who gets blamed?
If you are the Product Owner, Scrum Master or Project Manager, you’re probably saying that the leader gets the blame. If you’re a Scrum Team or development team member, you’re probably saying, “We always get blamed.”
What if the reality of the situation is it’s a bit of both, and both failures could be solved by a purposeful application of skilled follower-ship?
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Rob Asghar wrote about this recently in his Forbes article “Why Followership Is Now More Important Than Leadership.” He makes a strong point that “Good, skilled followers are able to nurture good leadership.” He adds that “It’s a lost art in our narcissistic times.”
The article, which is worth reading, provides enough information to see that following Scrum principles and practices can — and already do — produce skilled followers who nurture their fellow coworkers and even their bosses.
The first of Asghar’s “five steps that you can take to nurture better leaders in your workplace” is “Stop being a consumer, and start being a producer” and includes this direction: “See yourself as a scout, producer and nurturer of talent that others might overlook.”
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