Unmanagement and unleadership
Channel: Opensource.com
Date: 26/11/2014

Luis Ibanez is a senior software developer at Google. In this short talk he explains what he means by "unmanagement" and "unleadership" and how it can change the course of a project.

He says that we create the impression that leadership is what you need to get through a difficult time. But, that is misleading because the story that it does not tell is the work the community is doing. When we focus too much on the leader we diminish the work of the followers. Another problem with being in awe of the leader is that the community may be "off the hook" and may not feel responsible. You want everyone in the community to feel like an integral, important part of the team.

When things are going the preferred way, people say, "We did it!"

You can help foster this in your community or employees or teammates by not being so helpful and allowing people to pitch in.