i know, this gets a little pedantic, but i think it's an important question: is there a meaningful distinction between leadership and governance? (this would be a good one for any political scientists in our audience!) in my mind, for most of human history, communities have coalesced around central leadership, which is dynamic, organic, …
i know, this gets a little pedantic, but i think it's an important question: is there a meaningful distinction between leadership and governance? (this would be a good one for any political scientists in our audience!) in my mind, for most of human history, communities have coalesced around central leadership, which is dynamic, organic, immediate, and situational. i would contrast that with governance, which connotes a more rigid, self-perpetuating, bureaucratic, impersonal structure. again—a pedantic distinction, but i think there's something there.
Hmmmmm that feels like a bias to me (that leadership gets all the good words and government gets all the bad ones). A leader can be dynamic or rigid, bureaucratic or not. So can governance.
If you want to make a distinction between leading a small group vs. leading a very large group, maybe then you could say there are those kinds of distinctions??
well, let's think it through... we can identify an intrinsic quality in individuals that supercedes any administrative role they might occupy. at any scale of organization, you can have people who are bad leaders, good leaders, and brilliant leaders. oftentimes, brilliant leaders distinguish themselves in the midst of administrative dysfunction. great leaders have a unique ability to read the environment and coordinate an organized response without having to rely on bureaucratic infrastructure. these are the people that rise to the top organically, who inspire trust in people by virtue of their... leadership. they're the ones who have always formed the hubs of organic communities; we'll discover more of them as governments fail to respond to the challenges of the future, when the top-down administration of rules and bureaucracy starts to collapse. we could probably look to the recent disaster in Morocco for some real-world, on-the-ground examples of effective leadership responding to a crisis where governance failed.
i know, this gets a little pedantic, but i think it's an important question: is there a meaningful distinction between leadership and governance? (this would be a good one for any political scientists in our audience!) in my mind, for most of human history, communities have coalesced around central leadership, which is dynamic, organic, immediate, and situational. i would contrast that with governance, which connotes a more rigid, self-perpetuating, bureaucratic, impersonal structure. again—a pedantic distinction, but i think there's something there.
Hmmmmm that feels like a bias to me (that leadership gets all the good words and government gets all the bad ones). A leader can be dynamic or rigid, bureaucratic or not. So can governance.
If you want to make a distinction between leading a small group vs. leading a very large group, maybe then you could say there are those kinds of distinctions??
well, let's think it through... we can identify an intrinsic quality in individuals that supercedes any administrative role they might occupy. at any scale of organization, you can have people who are bad leaders, good leaders, and brilliant leaders. oftentimes, brilliant leaders distinguish themselves in the midst of administrative dysfunction. great leaders have a unique ability to read the environment and coordinate an organized response without having to rely on bureaucratic infrastructure. these are the people that rise to the top organically, who inspire trust in people by virtue of their... leadership. they're the ones who have always formed the hubs of organic communities; we'll discover more of them as governments fail to respond to the challenges of the future, when the top-down administration of rules and bureaucracy starts to collapse. we could probably look to the recent disaster in Morocco for some real-world, on-the-ground examples of effective leadership responding to a crisis where governance failed.