On 18 August 2014 14:31, Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/17/2014 09:13 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:The best leadership does not use executive power to make things happen.
> It is a problem with the Board structure because there have been many
> people who have been on the board who have tried to do things only to
> find that the board does not have any 'power' to enact anything.
Vision, common purpose, supporting culture, ability to try and
fail/learn, and some metric to understand if progress is being made is
far more effective leadership. To me the discussion is to keep the
current passive parts the board does, but to take on a former mentioned
in a active role to facilitate for the project.
Hope that makes sense.
Carl.
It does. However the best leadership will not get anything done if there is no one willing to help out or no budget to pay for the resources that the people need to enact things. What happens is in those cases is that the leadership or people leave to find the places where they can get the resources they need. We have been very good about being able enact small things that don't require a lot of resources but anything larger needing long term focus, more than a couple of volunteers and a laptop... we tend to fall apart quickly around the 6 week mark. Various people think that the Board (or being a member of the Board) can fix that but it had none of the tools either.
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