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Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)
- tetris11 2y ago[flagged]
- benkuykendall 2y agoNot sure how literal you're being -- this is an obituary. True to style, it gives a brief and positive biography of the deceased.
- koolala 2y agothe binary merit badge is amazing
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- chrisjj 2y ago> her “circular management,” where staff members are like beads on concentric circles To avoid going hierarchically "up" to the CEO, I guess :)
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- 1oooqooq 2y agobeautiful eulogy anyone can find the recruitment posters they talk about? i couldn't.
- mikehollinger 2y agoThe Peter Drucker compliment is pretty amazing. As an aside for anyone who’s technical and wants to understand how most corporations work, read “Effective Executive.” It’s from the 60’s but is still very relevant. It (more or less) is “how to be a knowledge worker.”
- spit2wind 2y agoI second this. If Peopleware or The Mythical Man Month are for managers, The Effective Executive is for individual contributors.
- mjklin 2y agoAlongside this I would recommend “The Art of Being an Executive” by Louis Lundborg, written by an actual CEO
- scrubs 2y agoDefinitely that book. Can recommend. Re knowledge worker and its challenges: a HBR article had a nice comic succinctly describing part of the challenge. Imagine the boss walking down the hall with offices w/half glass doors both sides so you can see in. In one office Bob is hard at it on the phone. In another office Carl is lost in thought looking at reports. In a third office chuck has got his feet up on the desk thinking. The caption (of the boss' thoughts) read: I wonder what they're doing? This contrasts with manufacturing. The brake guy is on the brake line doing brake stuff. Period. Maybe bob, Carl, Chuck are doing the boss' ask, maybe not. Maybe they're trying to get it right inspite of the boss or not. Going back to drucker's book he makes a strong point. He says it used to be to make money you come up with a product (oil, milk, wd40, dish soap, tin foil) and put you the smart people on design and manufacturing management. The rest are merely warm hands. Here's there is a concentration of talent in one place. Not so in knowledge work. To get anything done you need teams to work cross functionally to combine spealists. It's a different ballgame. Apple for example has good cross functional management lining up apps + hw + os + manufacturing supply chain. A apple guy interviewed by Charlie rose said that's apple's real secret sauce. Yes, industrial design form is sweet, but that's not the secret sauce, in fact.
- NtochkaNzvanova 2y ago
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoI think this is the first management/leadership post on here that I enjoyed reading. I've watched conventional industry/MBA-style techniques being forced onto the arts community (for example) with bad results. It does seem like different cultures could use different leadership approaches. Of course, finding actual leaders is damned hard.
- skadamat 2y agoI submitted this to HN and surprised it resonated with folks! Most of David Epstein's writing is fun, curious, exploratory, and useful just like this post
- rqtwteye 2y agoWhen I read these leadership stories you never hear from the persons they led. Only from other "leaders" or consultants. I have been in enough presentations where leaders bragged about their achievements but I knew that reality was quite different.
- 1123581321 2y agoProbably not relevant to Hesselbein; she was often being introduced by Girl Scouts people gushing about her. I did some work for Girl Scouts in the early 2000s and her legacy was a positive one then.
- NtochkaNzvanova 2y ago[flagged]
- doctor_eval 2y agoQuite unfortunate for you that all you got out of this article were political talking points.
- andyjohnson0 2y agoThats a mean and unworthy comment to make in response to a eulogy. Maybe consider keeping your opinions to yourself next time?