If we hope to be able to measure productivity in some quantifiable way, we must first appreciate what it means to be “more productive.” If I say that programmer A is “five times” more productive than programmer B, I mean that programmer A can finish a programming task in one-fifth the time it takes programmer [...]

Traditionally, leadership is conceptualized as a special form of power
relationship where leaders have substantial influence over the behaviour
of followers and exercise that power for mutual benefit.
With geekwork, you are attempting to harness the creativity of
individuals and groups in its purest form. And although behaviour plays
a role, it is substantially less important than in almost any [...]