A vector-based leadership philosophy
A leadership philosophy with a technical slant
I typically would sketch this out on a whiteboard for my new managers and budding leaders, but given our organization’s remote configuration (as of late), I’ve finally taken the time to codify my leadership philosophy in a short document with a few illustrative diagrams.
Each staff member can be thought of as a vector.
Wherein every vector has a magnitude.
A vector’s magnitude could represent motivation, output, impact.
And every vector has a direction.
A vector’s direction could represent alignment with organizational objectives.
It is the responsibility of leadership to align and attract all vectors to our north star objective(s).
The sum of all vectors should give us a sense of whether or not we are fully aligned and cooperatively contributing enough resources to ultimately reach our objective(s).
As leaders, we must pin ourselves as closely as possible to these north star objectives and continuously exert our influence to align and attract the vectors that comprise our organization.
Attracting, aligning, and measuring vectors against far-off strategic objectives may prove difficult.
Organizational directors can be strategically placed to more tactically align and attract these vectors toward our north star objective(s).
Each vector has its own attractive force. The alignment of vectors produces compounding results.
