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title: How Can Servant Leaders Still Drive Progress?
description: What if developers could choose their manager? Not in that mystical sense like a child picking her parents. More like how a rock band chooses a manager.
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# [How Can Servant Leaders Still Drive Progress?](https://www.sketchdev.io/blog/are-you-driving-or-are-you-serving)

 Written by [John Krewson](https://www.sketchdev.io/blog/author/john-krewson) | Oct 3, 2016 10:48:27 PM

 What if developers could choose their manager? Not in that mystical sense like a child picking her parents. More like how a rock band chooses a manager. Or the way that an individual chooses a career coach. What if organizations had a pool of managers, or coaches, and developers or development teams could determine which one would do the best job of elevating their strengths and mitigating their weaknesses? As a manager, would that change the way you approach your role? I think it would. Think about what an arrangement like that could do:

Create a loosely coupled relationship between the manager and developer activities.  
 Create a tightly coupled relationship between the manager and developer success.  
 Incent the manager to credit the developer with successes.  
 Foster a servant-leader mindset in the manager.  
 Turn managers in coaches.  
 Foster creativity among development teams.

I think this would be an interesting experiment. Who’s in? @johnkrewson

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