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On 04/10/2010 05:38 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> On 10 April 2010 15:53, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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>> As people seem to want the council to take action I offer to take |
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>> action. As it's impossible for me to do everything myself I offer to act |
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>> as a project manager/owner for people willing to donate their time to |
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>> whatever I see worthy for Gentoo as whole |
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> I am willing to follow real leaders, who inspire and lead by example, |
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> in the words of Ann Marie E. McSwain, Assistant Professor at Lincoln |
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> University, “leadership is about capacity: the capacity of leaders to |
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> listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to |
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> encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish |
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> processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own |
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> values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about |
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> setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and |
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> initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than |
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> managing change.” (quoted from |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership) |
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> You've just shown a striking lack of such leadership. |
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> No cheers this time, |
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We can change the word to managed then. In Finnish there is only one |
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word for both btw. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |