RE: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really need to know about XP?

From Steve's comments,

So from your experiences of being "groomed" how would a leader emerge in
the absence of this grooming?

The concept of "emergent" leadership is interesting IIF there is such a
leader in the group. The other unanswered question is what is the time
scale for this emergence? Is this timescale alterable by external
processes? Grooming prior to need?

The conjecture that emergent leadership actually works needs some
discussion. 

(1) Is there a difference here between emergent leaders and leadership?
Do self emergent leaders already have the leadership skills to lead and
therefore emerge in the absence of an imposed leader? 

(2) What processes are in place for this leadership to behave in
accordance with the higher needs of the organization? 

(3) At what scale does this emergent leadership work? Small group of
self directed teams? There is lots of literature on the software
development world on this approach? Large groups - say departments?
Where is the cut off - if any - on group size for self emergent leader?

(4) In the discussion here of leadership are we speaking in terms found
in business - say the HBR series on leadership - or in anecdotal terms
from within a small group?

Glen B. Alleman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ropa [mailto:[email protected]]
> Subject: RE: [xpAdoption] Re: Do C-Level managers, and business
drivers
> really need to know about XP?
> 
> Not only is it a difficult transition, many times it is not really
what
> one could choose to do.  I was "well-groomed" by my boss at the time.
> What's funny is I look back on all of the things he made me do and not
do.
> I was furious with him at the time, but now I see that he was giving
me on
> the job training.
> 
> And since you are going to ask, the one that I remember most was after
he
> made me the "tech-lead", he would only let me work on the least
> interesting and least challenging stuff.
> 

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