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From: Steve Rosiak <srosiak@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Who is willing to be lead?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:00:28
Message-Id: 201004102306.04173.srosiak@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Who is willing to be lead? by Ben de Groot
1 right.
2
3 Am Samstag, 10. April 2010 16:38:13 schrieb Ben de Groot:
4 > On 10 April 2010 15:53, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
5 > > As people seem to want the council to take action I offer to take
6 > > action. As it's impossible for me to do everything myself I offer to act
7 > > as a project manager/owner for people willing to donate their time to
8 > > whatever I see worthy for Gentoo as whole
9 >
10 > I am willing to follow real leaders, who inspire and lead by example,
11 > in the words of Ann Marie E. McSwain, Assistant Professor at Lincoln
12 > University, “leadership is about capacity: the capacity of leaders to
13 > listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to
14 > encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish
15 > processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own
16 > values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about
17 > setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and
18 > initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than
19 > managing change.” (quoted from
20 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership)
21 >
22 > You've just shown a striking lack of such leadership.
23 >
24 > No cheers this time,
25 >