The “team” metaphor is ambiguous, and I think an accurate interpretation of it doesn’t answer many questions.
The community isn’t the team in the sense that CEA is the manager. The only plausible rationale for that would be a mandate from the community, and I think we can exclude that based on the community not being the “customers.”
Thus, CEA seems to be in a leaderless co-worker type relationship, or a leaderless sports team co-member relationship, with other EAs and EA orgs. That’s a loose sort of team, and often an ineffective one [add sports metaphor appropriate to your culture here as mine would be US-centric.] For those sorts of teams to be effective, there generally has to be a lot of give and take from a position of rough equality.
There are also “teams” where everyone kinda does their own thing with relatively little coordination. I’m thinking somewhat of toddlers engaged in mostly parallel play rather than truly playing together. A valid model, but they are unlikely to build a really cool tower of blocks that way!
The “team” metaphor is ambiguous, and I think an accurate interpretation of it doesn’t answer many questions.
The community isn’t the team in the sense that CEA is the manager. The only plausible rationale for that would be a mandate from the community, and I think we can exclude that based on the community not being the “customers.”
Thus, CEA seems to be in a leaderless co-worker type relationship, or a leaderless sports team co-member relationship, with other EAs and EA orgs. That’s a loose sort of team, and often an ineffective one [add sports metaphor appropriate to your culture here as mine would be US-centric.] For those sorts of teams to be effective, there generally has to be a lot of give and take from a position of rough equality.
There are also “teams” where everyone kinda does their own thing with relatively little coordination. I’m thinking somewhat of toddlers engaged in mostly parallel play rather than truly playing together. A valid model, but they are unlikely to build a really cool tower of blocks that way!