{"id":8364,"date":"2020-11-27T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2020-11-27T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:16:08","slug":"good-leadership-after-all-is-defined-by-its-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8364","title":{"rendered":"Good leadership, after all, is defined by its absence."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaltonto.com\/2012\/the-leaderless-organization\/\">Greg Satell:<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>By now I think it\u2019s clear that organizations no longer serve to direct work, but to direct passion. &nbsp;Good leaders therefore, direct passion effectively, bad leaders do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, that\u2019s easier said than done, but as I described in an earlier post, Daniel Pink offers a very useful framework of autonomy, mastery and purpose. &nbsp;Organizations in the digital age that provide those three things, no matter what their size, history or technology, can succeed. &nbsp;Ones that do not will fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>And that\u2019s what leaderless organizations teach us about how to manage more conventional enterprises. &nbsp;While the examples above show that organizations can be self organizing, leaders with industrial age tendencies often obstruct progress. &nbsp;They pursue efficiency to the exclusion of passion, become overbearing and diminish performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Those who devote their efforts to the success of&nbsp;organizations&nbsp;like Morning Star, the Orpheus Orchestra and Anonymous are committed to a purpose, much like those at Apple, Facebook Google and other successful&nbsp;enterprises&nbsp; &nbsp;In the end, a leader\u2019s primary function is to imbue work with meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Satell: By now I think it\u2019s clear that organizations no longer serve to direct work, but to direct passion. &nbsp;Good leaders therefore, direct passion effectively, bad leaders do not. Of course, that\u2019s easier said than done, but as I described in an earlier post, Daniel Pink offers a very useful framework of autonomy, mastery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8365,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}