Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

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Post by stewartma » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups
blog.cadencework.com

Re: Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

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Post by angrais » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 10:21 PM UTC

Interesting approach to management. Does anyone have any experiences of this in practice and care to share?

More generally, I've started managing recently and would love to hear any recommendations from y'all

Re: Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

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Post by mdu96 » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 10:42 PM UTC

angrais wrote: post #2

Interesting approach to management. Does anyone have any experiences of this in practice and care to share? More generally, I've started managing recently and would love to hear any recommendations from y'all

This post details famous laissez faire leaders, if you're interested: https://futureofworking.com/5-famous-laissez-faire-leaders/.

By any chance have you worked at startups/in the tech industry? Every single startup I've ever worked at seems to have had a laissez-faire approach to leadership.

Re: Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

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Post by angrais » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 11:00 PM UTC

mdu96 wrote: post #3

angrais wrote: post #2

Interesting approach to management. Does anyone have any experiences of this in practice and care to share? More generally, I've started managing recently and would love to hear any recommendations from y'all

This post details famous laissez faire leaders, if you're interested: https://futureofworking.com/5-famous-laissez-faire-leaders/ . By any chance have you worked at startups/in the tech industry? Every single startup I've ever worked at seems to have had a laissez-faire approach to leadership.

Yes, have worked in startups, tech (as SWE), and academic research (computing), and found the article posted above to resonate with my experiences: take it easy, trust your team, build and get results.

Having said that, I've recently started managing and have no idea how best to do it. I'm emulating what I have experienced (laissez-faire it seems), but wanted to read me.

Thanks for the link!

Edit: just realized you're the author of the blog post, oh hai! I've read most of the posts on the site following this HN link and I really enjoyed the style of writing. Great work!

Re: Laissez Faire Leadership for Startups

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Post by mdu96 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 12:49 AM UTC

angrais wrote: post #4

mdu96 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post details famous laissez faire leaders, if you're interested: https://futureofworking.com/5-famous-laissez-faire-leaders/ . By any chance have you worked at startups/in the tech industry? Every single startup I've ever worked at seems to have had a laissez-faire approach to leadership.

Yes, have worked in startups, tech (as SWE), and academic research (computing), and found the article posted above to resonate with my experiences: take it easy, trust your team, build and get results. Having said that, I've recently started managing and have no idea how best to do it. I'm emulating what I have experienced (laissez-faire it seems), but wanted to read me. Thanks for the link! Edit: just realized you'r…

Haha thank you, I appreciate that!

And got it. Congrats on your new management role -- I think a lot about similar questions too...maybe once you learn some best practices, you could write something up and share it with HN :)