leadership
- Lots of things "leadership" can mean, that are quite different:
- blazing a trail - leading in the literal sense - doing a thing and getting others to join you
- you may retain some authority from this but you might actually not
- this guy got others dancing with him but then he was just another one of the dancers
- great 3 minute talk - sivers.org/ff
- "notice how the leader embraces the follower as an equal"
- "it was the first follower who transformed a lone nut into a leader"
- it may be that now there's just a bunch of people doing what you're doing, and you may no longer even be at the head of the pack
- Me saying I'm the godfather of #roamcult was pointing at a subtle kind of leadership—I quickly got totally left behind by other people who went way deeper into Roam than me, which is fine! Booster rockets.
- managing
- there's a role in organizations for coordinating the activities of different people
- Source
- this is the person who sees the vision clearly and
- related: doing high-level strategy for an organization
- in principle, you want Sources doing strategy about what they are Source of, at various fractal scales, but sometimes things get muddled
- something something philosopher kings