Researching leadership for a book I recently interviewed a Scrum Master who had done their thesis on Integral Leadership. When I asked about their ideas on leadership their immediate reply was, “We don’t talk enough about followership.” They then proceeded to spend the next 40 minutes talking about leadership.

In their defense I didn’t ask about followership but the comment stuck with me because I realized that I too was guilty of staring awestruck and tunnel-blind at the position that seemed to hold all the impact, value, and power.

Monty Python gives so much we can use in our transformation strategy!

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony! – Servant Leaders

You think you’ve had a hard time? I’ve been chained to the wall for five years, and they only hung me the right way up yesterday! - Retrospectives

Why do we do anything at all? What motivates us to get up in the morning, and come to work? When you think about it, the morning rituals we go through to arrive at a set location at a particular time, with a bunch of other people who feel just like we do (in their own way) in order to do a series of activities most of us could frankly care less about if we weren’t being paid to, does not lend itself to model that results in a happy, engaged workforce where the focus is on the Team more than the Individual.

As I mentioned in a previous post,  Agile was started by a widespread group of individuals who saw the way things were and weren't working and began to creatively break the rules to get better results.