Clan Leadership

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hey All,



I need advice. Is having 3 People Co-Lead a 30 Member Clan, my clan, BHC, a good idea? First it was me, then now my 2 members ( 1 been in for almost 3 years, joined on RTW, but 1 only been in for almost only 2 months). Is it a good idea to have more then 1 person lead a clan? I think my co-leaders are conpriacing aganist me....

It's been my experience in dealing with internet groups that one person should be the acknowledged leader, and power sharing leads to troubles.

If there's any physical hardware, domain registrations, or forum backups, etc., that same person in charge should have physical control over those as well.

Again, that's from what I've seen.

CR

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

I'm Meeting with them on Tuesday on MSN before we go on COD4 (I am sole leader of BHC on TW, no problem here, just on COD4, where I am worry of) and I tell them then, I like to be sole leader (I should be, I made this clan on TW in June 2004).


But how should I present this to them? What postions should I let them hold?

[Craterus]

Give them positions that sound official and important but don't give them any power whatsoever. That's the way to do it.

[Viking]

Ideally, I guess there's only one leader at top. However, there should be someone who you could trust enough to be assistant leaders; one leader and no one else with real powers sounds like a bad idea. Powers as in them being able to add, and perhaps kick, members to/from the clan. If there are no one in the clan one can trust enough to assign to such positions of power, it's far from a well functioning clan.

[TevashSzat]

Yea, make sure there is one leader like everyone said before.

That way, if there is an argument and a schism occurs, the clan wouldn't fall apart as easily.

In my guild wars guild, one officer and the guild master had an argument irl (they were college buddies) and out of spite, the officer kicked everyone lower than him out of the guild and it just basically collapsed afterwards since most people immedietely got into other guilds they had friends in....we were pretty good too, top 200 ranked

[Crandaeolon]

One person at the top with some assistant leaders (officers) works well in casual clans with varying amounts of member activity, but total democracy can also function if the clan is cohesive and competitive.

By this I mean really cohesive - as in, same nationality and some ties in real life. The all-Finn Guild Wars guild (around top 20 for about two years) I was in had a policy of shared leadership and it worked quite well, with responsibilities and assets (like vent servers, wiki, prize conversion to money, contact persons etc.) delegated to members with the time, inclination and ability to take care of these duties. Daily dialogue over an irc channel or vent made it all work.

That way, if there is an argument and a schism occurs, the clan wouldn't fall apart as easily.

Arguments happen in competitive environments all the time, it's just a matter of identifying and dealing with the problems. Sounds like the officer in your example was clearly ill fit to be in a competitive guild, and the guild in general was not solid enough to survive any reformation.

[Decker]

Just hire some thugs to go beat them up in real life... should work... works for Diablo anyways



But in all seriousness, what the others said is what you should do... if you've been around as long or longer, you are inclined to the top position, the others under you... especially the new guy...