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NireBryce
@NireBryce

it's fascinating how much people in general seem to think i should respect them just because they were promoted to an admin position

no, you've gotta build rapport and mend bridges and realize your job involves management if you're going to get me to care

what makes people think that I'll respond to yelling? a lot of us already mended that trauma response and these people just look, to borrow a term, cringe.

people keep fighting the wars of the past instead of noticing that the theatre has changed, and it's just so funny when you step away from it.

their ideal is people who don't speak up and do as their told, because they never realized that the people who told them their shit wasn't going to work needed the safety and respect to do it.

now everyone I know seems content just keeping their heads down while the businesses make the mistakes, no longer held back by the conscience of workers, tracing 6 month trends for 9 months, over and over


NireBryce
@NireBryce

if you want to lead me, you'll have to lead. know everyone's strengths, combine them, shore up weaknesses, debug your people and buy space for them to think and absorb shocks with.

it's the basic unit of human society. coordination across people who make their own decisions. The thing that's allowed us to get as far as we have. Something that's been trained out of you.

why?


ireneista
@ireneista

if anything, authority is a detriment to developing that kind of leadership skill.

we have far more to say about that but it's quite late, perhaps another time


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

One thing bad leaders refuse to do that drives me nuts is they refuse to spend their own clout or standing with leadership to protect their team. They're always talking about doing the best we can with a bad situation as if the situation isn't caused by a human whom it is their full time job to influence. The yelling is the pressure release downwards because they refuse to release it upwards.

The best, most loyalty-inspiring moments under leaders I liked were when they listened to us and spent the clout they had saved up to buy us the space that you mentioned. That got me through hard times better than any appeal to "dealing with what we have to" or being yelled at.

in reply to @ireneista's post:

it's worse than a detriment to developing it, anything that requires a bottleneck to sign off on instead of consensus means that things are now O(number of serial signing off points), but the people who see themselves as authorities never make the time for that.

good.

they could work around it! they just are apathetic about their job as much as most people, because even closer to the top capitalism still has its pressures.

so they just don't.

that's the beauty of it. the actual cause of death is when they start all pointing fingers at each other internally. because it has to be someone's fault, when things start falling apart.