RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? - Extension from Re: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers really need to know about XP?

George,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Poole [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:24 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? -
Extension

[>] [snip]

> Generally, I use the word "leader" to refer to the person who
> has emerged as a natural leader of the team. This person has
> a role that basically serves the rest of the team in trying
> to accomplish its goals. I find that teams and their leaders
> can learn to think of it this way and that it's up to
> management to avoid seeing the leader as some sort of a
> junior boss on the team.
> 
> So I do have team leaders... but they don't do things
> like make work assignments, evaluate people or make
> decisions about the direction of the project. They do
> present the view (or views) of the team to the manager
> who does need to make some sort of a decision.

[>] Does this separate leadership from management? There is likely to be
good leaders who are poor managers, as well as very good managers who
are not leaders.

> Obviously, such a person can't really be appointed,
> they have to arise from the situation. But in practice,
> the /recognition/ of such a leader has not seemed to
> be that difficult: often everyone on the team would
> name the same person if asked - although sometimes
> not the actual leader.

[>] This is the "leader" from within. We have those folks here, but also
we have appointed leaders as well, doing just a good a job. 

Glen B. Alleman
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