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

Just a process check...are we talking about "managers" or "leaders." If
it's leaders and leadership, then the appointment process is much
vaguer. If it is managers, the appointment of inheritance of authority
are much clearer.

I'm using the Zalezink terms (a classical 1977 HBR paper) that
differentiates managers from leaders. 

"Manger's goals arise out of necessities rather than desires.... Leaders
adopt personal, active attitudes toward goals..."

Secondly are the "leadership" traits in a small development group the
same as leadership traits on the business side, including the business
of software development? Are the leadership traits of "technical
leadership" the same as "business leadership?"

Glen B. Alleman

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> Subject: [xpAdoption] Re: Do C-Level managers, and business drivers
really
> need to know about XP?
> 
> Hi Glen,
> 
> > Do self emergent leaders already have the leadership skills to lead
> > and therefore emerge in the absence of an imposed leader?
> 
> Some conjectures and bald-faced assertions:
> 
> By the time the leader emerges, the leader has leadership skills.
> (Otherwise, the person wouldn't have emerged as leader.)  If someone
> on the team has leadership skills, I'd expect that to influence how
> the emergence happens.
> 
> Everyone on every team has at least a tiny hint of leadership skills.
>  These skills evolve along with the team, and in the direction of the
> team's needs.  Given that, I think an effective leader can emerge from
> many teams whose members start out with no particular leadership
skills.
> 
> > (2) What processes are in place for this leadership to behave in
> > accordance with the higher needs of the organization?
> 
> Maybe the "higher needs" emerge in accordance with the choice of
> leaders (among other factors).  It isn't clear to me that "the higher
> needs of the organization" exist prior to the emergence of leadership.
> 
> > (3) At what scale does this emergent leadership work?
> 
> My reading of history suggests that it works at all scales.  Every
> appointed leader was appointed by some other leader.  If you trace the
> appointments far enough, you necessarily reach an emergent leader.
> 
> New rule I just made up:  Every appointed leader derives authority
> from an emergent leader who has greater authority.  (I think this
> relates to another principle that someone wiser than me articulated:
> All authority is granted from below.)
> 
> Dale
> 
> 
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