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Leadership over Delegation #leadership #strategy #opportunity #management

Name: Leadership over Delegation #leadership #strategy #opportunity #management
Uploaded: 2024-09-20T13:00:49+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Ray Deck
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that effective leadership in well‑run companies means everyone shares responsibility for running the business and…

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that effective leadership in well‑run companies means everyone shares responsibility for running the business and creating value, rather than delegating tasks to separate, distant teams. Leadership is portrayed as being "in the trenches" with all team members, with each person contributing to the software and value creation to varying degrees of technical ability. The speaker emphasizes that there is no separate institution of labor to which work can be shipped; instead, the opportunity to lead arises because the entire organization is collectively involved.

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Leadership over delegation. It is not somebody else's job to go run the business or to create the software or to create the value. It becomes all of our business. Really well-run companies are well-led ones. And the leadership, I think, increasingly is about being in the trenches with everyone else. It can't be too much from a distance because if the company is going to be expressed as software, then everybody needs to be more in the weeds of, of expressing that software. That doesn't mean different people will have different levels of technical ability, but everybody is touching. It's all degrees. Nobody's at zero and certainly nobody's at 100%. Because of that, it's not— there's no job to ship to someone else in a special institution of labor kind of way. There's instead the opportunity to lead because we're all in it together.