RE: Leadership and Management - is NOT about decision making or control, is it?

Scott,

 

The "enabling" outcome you seek may be considered a second order effect
of leading or managing. It may also be a "style" of leadership. As a
former US Naval Officer, I would not characterize my "leading" a flight
of 4 A-6's over North Vietnam as an "enabling" role. Nor was it
"management." It did "enable" us to drop bombs on targets, but that was
a second effect for us, but a first order effect for the target. Granted
that domain was command and control, and "leading" or "managing" a group
of XP developers as "not" command and control, but it seems to me that
enabling is an outcome not an action of the leader or manager.

 

The context of leadership and management needs to be established as
well.

 

Glen B. Alleman

 

 

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Subject: [xpAdoption] Leadership and Management - is NOT about decision
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Well here I go again, number three in my agile management theme.

 

LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT - is NOT about decision makeing or Control, is
it?

 

the threads I started were actually, geared towards finding out peoples
views on Agile management and what peopel see leaders and managers doing
to support and help agile development teams.

 

My purpose was to see how many people actually came up with what I term
the real value of these roles are, and that is the ability to ENABLE
people to do work, by whatever means necessary. At the moment I feel the
threads I started are focusing more on control issues than those of
enabling teams/people/management/etc... to do thier jobs to thier
best/optimum.

 

Agile methods are a great way of achieving work/goals but only if the
people involved are enabled to do so.

 

I am very happy as to the incredible level of participation on these
lists incidently.

 

so now here is the core of the new thread, should managers manage,
control, make decisions for the team or enable the team/staff to do so
themselves, and if so ...

 

 

Scott Worley