Thinking about my own experiences of seeing these bottlenecks in action, I don’t think either is a subset of the other. It seems more like there’s a ton of situations where the only way forward is for a few people to grow a spine and have the tough conversations, and an adjacent set of problems that need centralised competent leadership to solve, but it’s in short supply for the usual economic reasons plus things like “rationalists won’t defer authority to anyone they don’t personally worship unless bribed with a salary”.
I agree, but I also think there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem there too. Leaders fear that enforcing order will result in a mutiny, but if that fear is based on an accurate perception of what will happen, telling leadership to grow a pair is not going to fix it.
Thinking about my own experiences of seeing these bottlenecks in action, I don’t think either is a subset of the other. It seems more like there’s a ton of situations where the only way forward is for a few people to grow a spine and have the tough conversations, and an adjacent set of problems that need centralised competent leadership to solve, but it’s in short supply for the usual economic reasons plus things like “rationalists won’t defer authority to anyone they don’t personally worship unless bribed with a salary”.
I think leadership also depends on backbone tho.
I agree, but I also think there’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem there too. Leaders fear that enforcing order will result in a mutiny, but if that fear is based on an accurate perception of what will happen, telling leadership to grow a pair is not going to fix it.