[HN Gopher] The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey
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       The Art of Leadership: Lessons from Art Blakey
        
       Author : AlbertCory
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-06-12 04:59 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | lysozyme wrote:
       | Great article. I think we find time and time again that the best
       | leaders are really "cheerleaders". It turns out that inspiring
       | people, personally living the values you espouse, and giving your
       | team trust and respect is the key to success.
       | 
       | In my experience, people excel in environments where they are
       | given a high level of trust, autonomy, and clear goals on the
       | timescale of months and years.
       | 
       | Teams on the rack of egotistical middle managers get stretched
       | thin until they break. There aren't a lot of good examples of
       | "micromanagitis" being cured. So-called leaders taking credit for
       | their team's work leads to their team not trusting that
       | leadership has their growth in mind. Art Blakey's real legacy is
       | both the amazing players he mentored and tutored, but also the
       | attitude that if you give people the tools they need, they'll
       | excel
        
         | AlbertCory wrote:
         | Thank you, sir.
         | 
         | I did _try_ to do this, intermittently. A couple people are now
         | VP 's or CTO's, and one founded an early (successful) Internet
         | company; whether I had anything to do with it, who knows?
        
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