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Re: Servant leadership

#101

Post by lazide »

avgcorrection wrote: post #95
tome wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems rather presumptuous.

It's just some back-handed well-wishing. ;)

Or personal experience - to quote “And that's about four more sentences of extra clarification that none of your comments have even deserved”.

Personally? I’ve never had that level of vitriol unless I’m well and thoroughly in need of a vacation. Or in need of a new life entirely.

Since, you know, if you actually were congruent with that you’d never need to actually reply with that or even your prior responses.

But thanks for clarifying.

Re: Servant leadership

#102

Post by avgcorrection »

lazide wrote: post #101
avgcorrection wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just some back-handed well-wishing. ;)

Or personal experience - to quote “And that's about four more sentences of extra clarification that none of your comments have even deserved”. Personally? I’ve never had that level of vitriol unless I’m well and thoroughly in need of a vacation. Or in need of a new life entirely. Since, you know, if you actually were congruent with that you’d never need to actually reply with that or even your prior responses. But th…

I was wrong. It wasn't back-handed, just directly spiteful.

Re: Servant leadership

#103

Post by avgcorrection »

tstrimple wrote: post #13
avgcorrection wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a one-weird-trick that management tries to use on underlings: they talk about motivating a sense of ownership to things. But this doesn't jive with the fact that employees are hirelings and thus have no ownership to anything in the company. But it would be convenient for management to push more of the responsibilities of ownership on the underlings, even though they will get none of the benefits. This of cour…

I'm confused as to what you think work is. Managers are just hirelings as well. They have different responsibilities, which includes effective delegation. If you think "ownership" of a process is just a trick to get employees to work, what's the alternative here? You're responsible for the outcomes of this process but don't own it and thus can't guide the direction of it? That sounds patently terrible. The benefit of…

> I'm confused as to what you think work is. Managers are just hirelings as well.

So what? People can be hired to be more direct servants of the ownership class.

They often have more pay and power after all.

Re: Servant leadership

#104

Post by lazide »

avgcorrection wrote: post #102
lazide wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or personal experience - to quote “And that's about four more sentences of extra clarification that none of your comments have even deserved”. Personally? I’ve never had that level of vitriol unless I’m well and thoroughly in need of a vacation. Or in need of a new life entirely. Since, you know, if you actually were congruent with that you’d never need to actually reply with that or even your prior responses. But th…

I was wrong. It wasn't back-handed, just directly spiteful.

Oh sweet summer child. If you think this is spite, you might want to stay indoors and keep not making eye contact with strangers.

This is kindness and empathy. Spite… is something you’re unlikely to ever trigger. Ciao!

Re: Servant leadership

#105

Post by fergie »

lambertsimnel wrote: post #98
fergie wrote: post #96

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Can't everybody downvote comments?

I can't The FAQ says "There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on direct replies." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

It would appear that I am one of the chosen!
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