Lately, I've been using the term Visionary Leadership regarding Steem, and who will organize projects, ideas and direction for the platform.
Many aren't familiar with the term which came from a leadership class I once attended.
There are different types of leaders.
We have been operating from what I would call Organizational Leadership, where we looked to Ned to lead due to his "Positional Power". As a Co-Founder and CEO of SteemIt, Inc he naturally held positional power and was looked upon as a leader due to his Positional Power.
By choice and action, he has moved away from that role.
Now we are aware that SteemIt, Inc. will limit their focus to Blockchain Development new leaders will get more attention. I call these the Visionary Leaders. These are people who have a vision/idea/project and are able to communicate it in a way that other people believe in or follow that idea. They become Visionary Leaders.
It is a powerful form of Leadership because people follow by choice (voluntary)
On a decentralized blockchain such as Steem there will be a number of these people at any given time. They will organize and lead projects, applications and perhaps at some point a voluntary group of people who fundraise, create voting blocks and maybe cooperate at the level of making decisions around future hardforks and development.
Previously many were looking to Ned to solve our problems, from policing abuse to Marketing to Development.
I think most of us now see that Ned is a Large Stake Holder who is the CEO of one blockchain development company. SteemIt, Inc. Unless you work for SteemIt Inc, he is not your CEO, he is not our leader.
His stake and the role SteemIt Inc has played will continue to give him a large amount of influence, but he is not the only leader on Steem.
I think it is great we now have clarification on the role that SteemIt, Inc will play. Only Blockchain Development.
Now the community can focus on finding and supporting the Visionary Leaders. Who lead with their vision and efforts and not from a position of Authority.
@whatsup,
Visionary Leadership little bit new form of leadership style to me! But I agree with your explanation and how it might absorb into our scenario as well!
Cheers~
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I will try my best with the role although lordy knows, I don't want it.
First up, I'm changing the logo, It's too green and cat-penis'y. I will organise a contest for the new logo which one of my alts will win but it will be fair and open to everyone.
Dont worry, there are plenty more ideas where that came from. I shan't let you all down
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haha, whew... glad you stepped up
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;O)
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To be fair @whatsup I believe @ned also leads with vision and effort, not just authority, but he doesn't have enough resources to do everything himself.
Steem as a cryptocurrency and blockchain will also be better if it is multifacited with more than one vision, and more than one leader.
So I agree with you about Steem needing new leaders who are recognized for their ability to lead. Let's just make sure to give credit where credit is due @ned has done pretty well so far.
P.S. Some of the potential new leaders include:
@aggroed for his work with @steemmonters
@kaliju and the @dstors team
And I think @exyle is in a position to lead witness reviews through @blockbrothers.
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Great post, @whatsup!
My thoughts on the topic:
While ned's recent "absence" is still something to "worry" about, the fact that we've got quite a lot of leaders in this Steem community already, is one of the reasons I'm not giving into doubts about the success of Steem.
I personally am doing the best I can to rally up people and focus my own efforts on Steem.
However, I do feel it's important that Steem & it's community, as a whole, rewards the right behaviour, so it doesn't become a place for greedy & lazy people.
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I couldn't agree more, and I often write about the importance of rewarding behavior we want to see repeated.
It does frustrate me when we reward laziness and bad behavior, because it attracts more of the same.
Many people will emulate what they see works! If we reward hardwork, and powerful leadership, that is what we will retain and attract.
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Oh the irony in this discussion is off the charts when you consider you're replying to bidbot owner.
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Oh you mean, someone who is building a business? Who has created a service that actually has demand?
The abuse of the bidbots is discouraging for sure. I put responsibility on both the owners and the community at large but don't hate the tool.
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The tool itself is great, therealwolf has made a great product. And of course it has demand, even if I don't like bidbots, I've chosen to sell all my votes through it because it's the best thing to do money wise, of course only when it comes to short term, long term wise it's killing our investment here. Everyone can just passively collect money, rather than having to work for it and gaining less doing so, yep, is it a wonder there's demand for it?
And thanks to bidbots I don't have to visit this place anymore, but curiosity got the best of me and I visited our trending just for chuckles and saw this post:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@the4thmusketeer/hdx20-the-token-that-always-rises-in-value
I guess at this point Trending is hurting the value of Steem more than increasing it. But I know you don't like these statements because they aren't backed by concrete facts, but everyone can think for themselves.
There's one reality after all we all operate in. And calling what bidbots have done to our community just discouraging is putting it very mildly. But there were many warnings when the first ones popped up, no action was taken by the community nor ned and here we are.
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I respect your point of view. There is no question our economy is struggling, but who's to say if the bidbots, or the coinstacking Stakeholders, or the lack of meaningful development is the cause? Or maybe the combination of those and other factors.
What I do know is the whitepaper said abuse was in the hands of the community to solve with flags.
My opinion is a leaky bowl doesn't hold water and speculation is not enough during a bull market to fund the sell pressure no matter where it comes from, sell pressure is sell pressure.
In any case thanks for stopping by and sharing your view!
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It all starts from the stakeholders and the ninja mine + early miners gaining huge stake in a social platform, remember when bidbots first came to existence and there was this one whale who forced the 3.5 day limit on using the services via flags? If only everyone would use their stake like that.
When ethereum finally comes scalable, it will have its own version of Steem, and without the skewed early distribution and ethereum ecosystem already being one of the biggest, it will be very hard to compete with.
Good to see we think a like after all. What does worry me is that there's no serious talks about improving the situation via rules. Obviously flagging or policing isn't happening at all and so on. We were all waiting for SMT's to save us and now even they are coming as a lite version, if at all. I don't know where the discussion is happening or is it happening at all, but seeing a post on trending once a week where this would be discussed would make community feel heard.
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rules are contrary to what this is about. If someone wants to build an app and add rules they can.
Who will make the rules? Who will enforce the rules?
It is a stake based system. I would rather watch it sink than see "rules".
If you want a post on trending, you can write it and vote it up there. :) See freedom matters.
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I nearly did a post tonight but stopped. I am not disappointed in what happened but has done us a favor. We clearly know where we stand and I had my doubts why everyone looked to him as a leader. I don't kick people when they are down but what happened didn't shock me. I have worked inside some big organisations and have seen this before.
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Yes, I think we should stop speaking his name without reason. Move on.
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It is good to see this form of leadership appear here. Share your dream and other people build it for you.
Like in Forest Gump when all runners follow him and build a movement around it.
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Interesting take on the Forest Scene! But yes, he was running and inspired people to follow.
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Steemit Inc should probably be selling Steem internally instead of killing the price on the exchanges.
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going to be really interesting to see how this shakes out ... well presented @whatsup
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I would like to apply to be on the Council of Elders.
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Looking back, this was always the case -- apparent in Ned's perpetual distance and detachment. It's almost surprising how long it's taken the rest of us to define this -- or why it was necessary for him to explicitly come out and say so. But, yes, there's a huge leadership void to be filled here. I look forward to seeing who steps up. Possibly one strong personality with a lot of capable lieutenants ... none of which may have such formal designations. As in that old Chinese curse ... we live in interesting times. Not just on Steemit, but elsewhere.
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I agree totally, I've even talked about it, but this is a new level of understanding and I think it is good.
While just last night I read a post where someone called Ned or CEO. He isn't and never was.
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I think we are beginning to see many around the ecosystem with different focuses. We have the developers that have created some great DApps that maintain users engage in different ways. We also have the community leaders that are curating and looking towards supporting their members. Witnesses will need to be the bridge given their influence and governance knowledge. I think it can be done; but nobody said it will be easy!
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It will not be easy, but at least we will have a core group who have survived and kept working.
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Very well put.
We need to be working towards more decentralisation.
Hope this thing doesn't go down.
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Good leadership comes through meritocracy, not stake holding...
....the two are not mutually exclusive, but neither are they automatically connected.
I see no evidence of a free meritocracy ever being allowed to work on here..
Too many fragile ego's combined with big stakes will never allow it.
The threatening of the ego will take precedence over any logical and merit from 'smaller people'...
The way this is set (steemit), is not meritocratic.
If it was, then distribution would have happened much more by now among users.
The true meritocrat would have forgone there own big rewards to make a much larger base with much bigger stakes in the platform - thus making steemit massively stronger, and much more attractive to new users to grow even more..
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Sigh, I wish I didn't agree with you.
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Sigh, I wish people would stop saying that to me...
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Wouldn't that also mean that any visionary leader would start building outside of Steem, roll their own blockchain, APIs, and interface, and take it from there?
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I think a big problem in this industry is that techies are not leaders...by definition of the pursuits they enjoy...
And good leaders tend to know what it is they are leading - The have a clear view of what they want ...and are not techies.
You see what I mean?
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I think this is the natural progression of what would happen on Steem. I mean, Ned can't do everything, and if a Dapp becomes sustainable by itself, it would be beneficial for it to have it's own set of leaders. There will defiantly be more influential content creators than others, who's to say it will not be the same with app developers?
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Agree, I see a lot of people stepping up right now.
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In a large way, I feel like the odd man out.
I have no expertise in any way, shape, or form when it comes to anything but creating content.
Up to this point I have had a ball creating content that I feel is of good quality.
Seven months ago I joined Steemit with the intentions of basically creating a journal of a part of my life. My hopes were that future generations of little Jurgs would be able to check me out and get a better picture of me. ( Dad, Grandpa, Great Grandpa, etc.)
I will continue to enjoy my involvement on this platform, but I would suspect that very shortly I will be a fish out of water.😢😢😢
At this point my thoughts are basically, You've got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away And know when to run.
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Why not continue to do that?
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There you go girl! Build, build, build.
¡In-Tha-Future-We-Trust! :)
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