On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 02:20:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/10/2017 6:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
LOL. IIRC, there have been cases where you and/or Andrei have
actually tried
to get folks to do specific stuff, and it generally hasn't
worked. Pretty
much everything that gets done around here is because someone
steps and does
it.
It pretty much totally doesn't work, even when the person asks
"what can I work on?"
It's an interesting management problem, one I've never seen
covered in management books, which never seem to cover
volunteer organizations.
I'd say it is more about politics than management theory. At
least in the lower ranks of politics. Local affairs are driven by
volunteer work as well.
It usually comes down to charismatic and visionary leaders.
Walter and Andrei are good with that, otherwise D would have
faltered long ago.
