> The problem with explicit leadership positions is that people have no downward mobility. If you are bad, then the organization loses a great resource. There

> The problem with explicit leadership positions is that people have no downward mobility. If you are bad, then the organization loses a great resource. There is downward mobility if you want it. I have seen technical people promoted to managerial positions in the 'usual' way, i.e. seniority, who ended up not liking it and not who were not very good at it, and went back to purely technical positions within the same organisation. Nothing prevents this as long as people are sensible, talk, and don't promote battles of egos in the organisation.