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> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled if circumstances have changed, unless you can read t
by zepto 5y ago
> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled if circumstances have changed, unless you can read the leaders mind.
Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstances. And if you’re going to ignore circumstances, clearly no set of written priorities will save you.
How someone actually makes decisions is obviously more discernible from the decisions they have made in practice than from a set of statements they make about how they do it.
> But, and here's an important thing: a leaders' values may be different in different circumstances! The same person, when running a 5 person startup, and a 50,000 person company, will land on different sides of the same tradeoffs! Organizational priorities change.
This is a point I explained to you earlier. I’m glad you now agree with it.
- joshuamorton 5y ago> Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstances. How can you take those circumstances into account without knowing what leadership values in those circumstances? And anyway, how do you even know you have full information? Like, the point of leadership, in a very generic sense, is to distill the context that I don't need to worry about down into instructions at an appropriate level for me to act on. If they aren't doing that, then what are they doing? > This is a point I explained to you earlier. You may have attempted to communicate this. You did not succeed, as I still don't know where or when you tried to make this point.