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People have been able to build successful organizations without being abrasive dickheads to their colleagues and subordinates all the time. I think it's a false
by blindwatchmaker 8y ago
People have been able to build successful organizations without being abrasive dickheads to their colleagues and subordinates all the time. I think it's a false dichotomy.
- sz4kerto 8y agoDo you have relevant examples (or even better, some statistics)? How do you measure this and how do you know if they were assholes or not? I guess you don't have a record of SLT meetings of large companies (as you have access to the emails between Linus and the maintainers). Leaders of large companies are _usually_ more aggressive, selfish and less agreeable than average people. This is a well-researched topic (and also makes sense intuitively -- leading a Fortune 500 company comes with so unique perks that there's an immense fight for those roles).
- rocannon 8y agoRicardo Semler is an example which comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
- parabx 8y agoI'ts not an company per se, but the rust community is fairly big and full of awesome, well mannered and cheerful leaders.
- Ygg2 8y agoWat. I been there and it's a fairly small community. They do have awesome and well mannered leaders but most are connected to Mozilla.
- noobermin 8y agoI think that's the point. However, such people "disappear" and end up being less known, even though they had a substantial impact of what they started. This fact then becomes part of entrepreneur folklore, reproducing more and more toxic people, etc, etc. I'm not sure why it has to be this way or whether it has to be.
- aerovistae 8y agoCompletely agreed. But it's definitely one of the archetypes of effectiveness, oddly.
- HaoZeke 8y agoHonestly though, LINUX IS FOSS. FOSS DEVELOPERS BURN OUT. PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. Give the guy a break.