Everyday leadership

What is everyday leadership? It's a person's day-to-day attitude, communication style, and actions that influence others. You can lead others little by little, bit by bit—sometimes without them realizing you are leading them at all. As an everyday leader, you are in tune with yourself, calling on unique talents and traits to lead your team. Your leadership style will be different from mine, which will be different from all of our colleagues and so on. You can create your own unique ScrumMaster leadership style by practicing and focusing on self-improvement. You influence others by building great teams, and sometimes by flexing your corporate muscle.

So much has been written about the ideal leader—his characteristics, behavior, how he must imprint upon us the desire and passion for success. We hear stories about Jack Welch, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs, and Ronald Reagan, who touch us with their words and inspire us to be better, do better, surpass...