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Christian:
On 27.09.18 18:11, Christian Huitema
wrote:
Of course, that does not mean that having multiple perspectives is
not important. A team in which everybody thinks alike is very
likely to engage in group-think and be blind to events. For
example, if I had mostly nerds in a team, I would want to add
artists. If my team members cared mostly about engineering and
performance, I would want to add advocates for usability and
design. We have many dimensions of that in the IETF, security,
performance, privacy, ease of use, maintenance, operations,
scaling, internationalization. Different people have different
priorities. We should try to select for this kind of diversity in
the leadership.
I largely agree. There are two ways to look at all of this:
- reactive: what people end up doing based on events; and
- advocative and aspirational: what people want to do when they
get into a role.
Our immediate future rests with our leadership's ability to have
enough breadth and depth to handle the former well; and our long
term future depends on having people who have a good vision.
Whether that extends all the way to artists and usability
experts, I'm not sure, but it can't hurt to try.
Eliot
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