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  1. @ipreuss I suggest that servant leadership, coaching, therapy, and parenting are all cut from the same cloth. Essentially same toolbox.
  2. @ipreuss How would it be different from how any leader, or coach, for that matter, encourage any improvement? Equally seriously curious!
  3. RT @chzy: #coderetreat is on the boat this weekend! @leandog [I'm so there]
  4. @ipreuss I still don't get the either/or here. Our teams can have emergent leadership, and a single leader role can encourage that.
  5. @ipreuss The true emergent leaders I have seen and worked with have worked out well. Not so, the externally-imposed managers-by-fiat.
  6. Have proposed a couple of options for time, and one option for place, for #storytesting summit: http://bit.ly/5x6x6t
  7. @estherderby I've also seen QA "team members" gather such spy evidence for their QA manager bosses.
  8. @estherderby I have seen architect "team-members," for example, act as spies. They gather false evidence of dysfunction for their bosses.
  9. @estherderby But I don't think I have articulated well enough what I see missing; I shall go back l8r and re-articulate it.
  10. @estherderby So I want incentive structure & performance eval occurring inside the team, mainly. Perhaps that much should be collective.
  11. @estherderby People who don't join the team completely, in their hearts, because they report to someone outside the team, even anti-team.
  12. @estherderby Those are most problematic. The thing is, I keep seeing architects, or QA folk, or PMs whose allegiance is purely structural.
  13. @estherderby I've tried to summarize it in my post. Please let me know what I have not made clear (apparently, plenty: http://bit.ly/3DSDB9
  14. @estherderby @RonJeffries @GeePawHill My contention is that "multi-leadership: is necessary and, in my experience, has not sufficient.
  15. @estherderby I do too; I want to nurture leadership among all team members. Probably strongest "self-organizing" force.
  16. @RonJeffries Ron, I swear to God, what I really want is both. Is that so wrong? It is always entirely possible that I am smoking crack.
  17. @RonJeffries Why not? In my experience all management, whether good or bad, fiat or elected, is temporary. Why not be formal bout that too?
  18. I revised the blog post, trying to steer more clear of traditional manager-like, fiat-designation language.
  19. @dhemery http://bit.ly/3DSDB9
  20. @RonJeffries Agreed. Managers are typically bad, and typically imposed by fiat, and typically terrible leaders. All very bad.