The world of our lives is an era of enforcement. In order to maintain stability, our leaders will make us with our daily activities in the way they publish orders, and control our daily activities. Project managers in formal software engineering, as well as most primary and secondary school teachers, and our government. They forced their thoughts to us, regardless of our individuality and freedom. So our thoughts, our creativity, our imagination, all killed. We are like a corpse without thought, being moved by others, and there is meaningless life.
This is the evil result brought by the "Command-Control" era. "Adaptive" is to let us get out of this harsh environment. We have to take "leadership-collaboration" approach. The commander knows the goal, and the leader grasps the direction; the commander issues commands, the leader is impact; the controller issues the requirements, the collaborator makes it; the controller conducts micro management, and the collaborators are encouraged. Leaders are leading the team, he does not suppress new ideas, just guiding. Collaboration is a common progress and is a kind of help to others, is a unity of ideas. The real leader never order, just create a good cooperative atmosphere and guides the team to the correct direction.
"Unfortunately, most software development is" managed ", not" leaders ".
The real "leadership - collaboration" is responsible for everyone. Everyone is not only responsible for their work, but also is responsible for the entire project. Everyone is a leader. Everyone interacts in an environment that is included in others. Help each other, respect each other, communicate with each other, not only responsible for their work, leadership, and also unifying thinking to make a common decision.
Here, the project manager is not implementing power, but to create this environment, one person will only have creative when maintaining common and personal tension. Indicators means abandoning something, but there is no matter whether it is more important to force decisions, and forcibly enforce in accordance with the process regulations. For individuals, for business activities, for management, this is applicable to the social system. Is this not a progressive idea?
"Leadership - Collaboration" is the fundamental idea of adaptive management and a cultural atmosphere of a team.
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