Links: Leadership

Three Common Fallacies of Quaker Leadership by Andy Stanton-Henry, seen else-dreamwidth. The named fallacies are leaderlessness, chill (not overtly exerting power), and empathy.

[...] being an empathic leader doesn’t mean we stand idly by in the face of power grabs, spiritually garbed dithering, and rhetorical violence. It doesn’t mean we allow a meeting’s mission to be sabotaged by unhealthy or immature people, no matter how much we care about them personally.

Questionable Advice: "My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right?

[...] hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian. Hierarchy did not originate as a political structure that humans invented for controlling and dominating one another, it is in fact a property of self-organizing systems, and it emerges for the benefit of the subsystems. In fact, hierarchy is absolutely critical to the adaptability, resiliency, and scalability of complex systems.