Re-imagining

Thu Apr 11 17:47:58 UTC 2013

Making a leader from scratch is not a practical idea.

One best option is someone who wants to learn to be a leader on his own initiative and does his or her own training while taking on the leadership hat in this Ubuntu group.

 It is a personal goal and effort.

Leadership skills and experience are very helpful and valuable in almost all areas of life, especially the business world.

So groups like this Ubuntu group  are excellent opportunities to learn and practice.

This experience always good on a resume and adds marketable value to a person.

When a potential employer reads on a resume that the applicant is or was a leader in any group or club,  that is a big plus. That experience gives a clear edge.  It shows that the applicant can handle responsibility.   So he or she is worth a lot more to an employer than some who does not have that quality and experience.

Good leaders are scarce and there is always more room at the top.

The second option is if someone already has leadership skills from their business or career area and is or becomes a member of this Ubuntu group and takes on the responsibility and makes things happen. 

David 

Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:25:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Re-imagining
From: dscassel at gmail.com
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

I was making a point about the Ubuntu Leadership team but got distracted in editing.  What I was trying to say is there was some effort towards leadership training (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLeadership), but it seems to have fallen away.  I read the documents, and there was some good effort there, but I don't know how much of a practical impact they would have had.

I think growing a leader from raw potential takes a lot of care and feeding.  Or they just show up and do their thing.  

Darcy.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Mark Paskal <markpaskal at gmail.com> wrote:

 I think there needs to be a minimum level of leadership to facilitate good communication.

To some extent, I figure this would occur naturally if you have a robust ecosystem of city teams.  Because the sort of people who start city teams are the sorts of people who don't like to see the national LoCo or whatever lying fallow (it could be I'm projecting, as it is evident there are also city team leaders who think national LoCos are a useless waste of time, but whatever.  I don't think it's necessary for *every* city team leader to be on board for a national/regional LoCo to work.  And I'm all for them getting their dues even if they don't want to play along.  But I digress...).

Leaders are just people.  There's no "leadership" school, really.  Unless you count MBAs, but they make me sad.  (Well, actually, Ubuntu tried to do something like leadership and/or community management training or documentation a couple cycles back I never really thought of myself as a leader, but I have this tendency to get involved and do things because I think they ought to be done.  Which is why I'm also running a hackerspace.  

For a mailing list, I don't think it takes much.  You just need a person or a couple of persons to be granted the role of moderator.  And hopefully they have the respect of the participants and can do the job well.  Boom, you have a leader.

Darcy.

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