Comment by lelanthran

> He has opinions on how the company should be managed, what the product should be, and how to interact with the community... but he abdicated all the responsibility, didn't provide leadership, and is now complaining it didn't turn out how he wanted it. This is personality problem and business books won't help.

This isn't a personality problem; it's far far worse (or better, depending on your point of view) than that:

FTFA

> We hired two new staff to work on it, and did our best to reconcile what little guidance we got from Leadership with an internal process focused on discussion and consent. By late 2024, the app wasn’t what anyone wanted it to be,

Yup, no surprises there.

> Toward the end of our time at CAS we experimented with sociocracy as a way to organize without hierarchy and coercion,

> how much to disclose in our negotiations with CAS (IMO everything) or whether board members should be required to donate money (IMO no, plutocracy is bad at all times and at all levels)

> I tried to do what seemed like the only thing I could do in a hierarchy

> Accepting a grant without any consultation with staff about how its obligations might be met

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> Since the exodus, Leadership has improved on some fronts [...] They hired three new engineers for the mobile team that seem both experienced and enthusiastic.

Well, a large grant will let you do that :-/

It seems to me that the problem was not one of personality, but of ideology.

Personality is deeply embedded in humans, ideology is merely adopted.

Author's ideology differed from that of leadership. His personality is probably irrelevant.