I haven’t checked the claims myself, but “follow good leadership practices” seems to be a heavily disputed claim. Some people claim DxE is a cult, see e.g. here.
I think it’s possible to use good leadership practices and bad leadership practices. I think the success of DxE has shown that he can do some things quite well.
I’ve met Wayne before. I get the impression is he quite intelligent and has definitely been familiar with EA for some time. At the same time, DXE has used much more intense / controversial practices in general than many EA orgs, many practices others would be very uncomfortable with. Very arguably this contributed to their successes and failures.
Sometimes I’m the most scared of the people who are the most capable.
I really don’t know much about Wayne, all things considered. I could imagine a significant amount of investigation concluding that he’d either be really great or fairly bad.
“really great or fairly bad” sounds like you’re ruling out “really bad”, but I think the worst outcomes are produced by combining very good with very bad leadership practices. If you’re bad at everything, you’re unlikely to have much of a negative impact because nobody will pay attention to you. So I would have said “really great or really bad”. I agree with you otherwise.
I haven’t checked the claims myself, but “follow good leadership practices” seems to be a heavily disputed claim. Some people claim DxE is a cult, see e.g. here.
I think it’s possible to use good leadership practices and bad leadership practices. I think the success of DxE has shown that he can do some things quite well.
I’ve met Wayne before. I get the impression is he quite intelligent and has definitely been familiar with EA for some time. At the same time, DXE has used much more intense / controversial practices in general than many EA orgs, many practices others would be very uncomfortable with. Very arguably this contributed to their successes and failures.
Sometimes I’m the most scared of the people who are the most capable.
I really don’t know much about Wayne, all things considered. I could imagine a significant amount of investigation concluding that he’d either be really great or fairly bad.
“really great or fairly bad” sounds like you’re ruling out “really bad”, but I think the worst outcomes are produced by combining very good with very bad leadership practices. If you’re bad at everything, you’re unlikely to have much of a negative impact because nobody will pay attention to you. So I would have said “really great or really bad”. I agree with you otherwise.