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"Herding cats" assumes your team consists of running wild stray cats. I am not sure if that's "servant" either. Leaders should treat their teams as adults. As
by mads_quist 2y ago
"Herding cats" assumes your team consists of running wild stray cats. I am not sure if that's "servant" either.
Leaders should treat their teams as adults. As an adult I can also accept my leader's decision - disagree and commit.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoMay be lost in translation. In the US, "Herding Cats" often means trying to get a group of highly individualized people, into a unified direction. Then, there's this EDS ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
- philipov 2y agoCats are highly skilled individuals and you can trust them to catch the mice, but you can't trust them to coordinate with each other. Left to their own devices, they'll just focus on their own technical expertise. The specialized job of a leader is to get the cats to work together.