All work actually requires servant leadership to be maximally effective. This article does a great job of explaining it in the software domain. My wife works as a school principal and though the specific jargon would be different, the lessons are the same, because other than specific idiosyncracies that engineers have, we're all motivated and burned out by the same fundamental things. That's the good news - people are people.

The bad news is that if you get burned out by software, changing careers isn't going to fix anything. As I get older I care less about the specific problems to be solved by the team, and I care a hell of a lot more about the group of people I solve them with

Thanks for posting this.