Regarding all these alternative ways of organizing, what's wrong with a leader taking responsibility, delegating it where feasible, and selecting for team members to whom they can delegate responsibility with confidence? Taking direction or orders from a manager is only ever stressful if that manager doesn't take accountability for their decisions and directions. I'm not sure the solution to that is a new framework w…
>Team members don't need to be "heard," or need sympathy from managers, they need confidence that their leadership understands the environment they work in, takes responsibility for decisions, and gives them direction based shared competence. This is 100% the worst advice. It's a sign that you are a bad leader. There are two components of leadership. Managing up and managing down. In order to gain a leadership positi…
There is only one component of leadership, and it is the definition: it is the effect of being followed. You can't fake it because it is an effect, not a result. It only happens with willingness in others that is the result of trust, earned through establishing legitimate authority.
Management is literally the effect of compromise between competing factors, with feedback into influencing those factors, and %80 of your effort spent on maintaining the ability to influence them.
In this sense, the difference between management and leadership is like that of a thermostat and the weather.