The challenge with "Servant Leadership," like many popular things, is that once it becomes a buzzword objective for "good", it becomes a mask for people who wish for leadership. As a name for a set of particular mindset driven behaviors of leaders, it is great. Performative mimicry of those behaviors without the associated change in mindset is similar to a cargo cult[2], unmoored from the producing virtue it becomes a source of cognitive dissonance.

Mindset: "We define mindsets as core beliefs or assumptions that we have about a domain or category of things, that orient us to a particular set of expectations, explanations and goals." --Dr. Alia Crum [0]

0. https://hubermanlab.com/dr-alia-crum-science-of-mindsets-for...

Virtue: "Stable dispositions to perform socially desirable actions in a manner that is sincerely motivated by shared values." --Edward Slingerland from "Trying Not To Try" [1]

1. https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Not-Try-Science-Spontaneity/dp...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

> A more useful understanding of morality is that it’s a framework for cultivating individually and socially desirable behavior.

This reminds me of Edward Slingerland's definition of Virtue from "Trying Not To Try": Stable dispositions to perform socially desirable actions in manner that is sincerely motivated by shared values.

https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Not-Try-Science-Spontaneity/dp...