Dark Efficacy

The case for leading communities by letting go

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Real community doesn’t show up in dashboards, but lives in the unscripted moments leaders quietly enable.

In this week’s article, Starian Porchia makes the case for leading communities by letting go. Arguing that the most effective community leaders:

- Generate space rather than direct outcomes
- Nourish connection rather than orchestrate it
- Ultimately make themselves less central to the work.

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