Saw this over on {Codesqueeze}. He talks about the danger of self-organizing teams. When people aren't given clear responsibilities, things get dropped. If there is a task which belongs to everyone it will in the end be accomplished by no one. Everyone who sends e-mail knows this. If you want an answer to your mail, never send it to two people at once. Send two individual mails. I liked this quote:
Managers with strong knowledge but are weak leaders tend to run hippie communes.
This is often true. There is a management style which tries to leave responsibility up in the air. Weak leaders hope their teams will self-organize. This just doesn't work most of the time. If it does, it is usually because a strong leader who wasn't the manager took charge.
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