On Sat, 2006-19-08 at 14:02 +0200, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: > But maybe nobody reacted because everybody thought it was someone else's > job to do so, and they didn't want to do anything wrong. So maybe what > we need is some directions from the project leader on how to react if we > see a mail on the list from somone outside the project, and it obviously > needs to be answered.
It might be that no one reacted because they didn't want flack if they got it wrong. But that means that fear of being wrong paralizes the project. I think it's important to delegate work (e.g. to MarCons) and let them make reasonable judgements without fear of reprimand. Accept that the people you delegate work to may not do everything exactly the way the project lead would have done it, but that having an effective project is more important than getting your way all the time (even if you /are/ right about the details). The job of a manager/lead is not to approve every little action, but to delegate. MarCons and other volunteers are resources, and the manager's job is to manage those resources effectively. The fact that there are 5 MarCons in North America who could have replied here and none of them did tells me that the project's resources are not being managed properly. Cheers, Daniel. -- http://opendocumentfellowship.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw
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