Leadership Lessons From Hermitcraft

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There's a blast from the past. The fact that your particular role has changed so much never really occurred to me until now. I think you having less responsibility has been good for you and has let others find a place to speak up in rather than passively accept the consensus (I'm one of them). I think we're very lucky that no one actively wants control, we're too old ;)

Hey X! Thanks for giving a shoutout to the Hermitcraft wiki! As the top editor and someone who has spent the past 2 years trying to make sure every Hermitcraft episode is cataloged on the wiki, it makes me happy to hear that our efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. Great video, can't wait for number 3!

This is definately a very under talked about subject in and around the Minecraft Youtube space. I think everyone wants the "glamour" of a successful video/series/smp but don't want or don't understand the hard work that goes on behind closed doors. In the end I think Hermitcraft does so well because in the end there players are also good friends.

Sometimes it is just having one person that not afraid to speak up to initiate the conversation, and then going the extra mile to take notes and listen to ensure others success. In return their success is your success, and the group as a whole is rewarded. Hermitcraft is that result of the extra mile. You should be proud as well as everyone else regarding your accomplishments, and hopefully you are able stop, smell the roses, and soak it all in.

The problem I ran into when running a SMP was the lack of a team and despite how hard I tried I could not do everything myself. In that sense Xisuma is right clear communications and transparency is one of the key elements. If you have team members that are active and want to participate give them the chance. Even if they mess up sometimes they learn from that experience and try to be encouraging as a leader to them. If your with like minded friends and start as a small group it is easy to manage than having people in you don't know or that work against you. I think Hermitcraft success has been a multiplied combination of luck, good management and things aligning in favor for it.

A lot of these leadership principles apply in real life as well. It's always great to get a different perspective on things and this video does a good job of highlighting that.

Great leadership advice! All of those same principles apply to any other leadership role as well whether work, sports, community, etc. Also nice to hear that you had to learn/develop these skills over the years and that they didnt just come naturally. I think that can helps others understand that great leadership comes from those willing to learn and admit mistakes. Thanks Xisuma, this series has been fantastic so far.

7:40 - Loved that bit in the "log book." XD Grumbot must have spies....

In Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, he explains that the most successful people have been in the right place, right time and then took hold of that opportunity by putting hours upon hours into it. I believe Hermitcraft represents this concept well.

One thing I've noticed since about Season 5 is that all of the Hermits have been implementing aspects of improv comedy - so I'm pretty sure you all must have taken a course in how to execute that successfully. You've all done such a really great job of interacting with and supporting each other since then and it is really impressive. It really boosted content quality.

This server is definitely magical and inspiring

I've experienced the negatives of trying to run an SMP and I find this to be very helpful. Communication is ALWAYS the hardest and most challenging part. Thank you for this great video.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were simply an artistic choice, but I deeply enjoyed the visual that Hermitcraft administrative meetings happen in game and not over zoom or discord.

I remember a convention panel with some gaming personalities a few years back, one of the content creators was asked to divulge the one thing new creators need to become as big as the youtube heavy hitters of the day. His answer: a time machine. First-to-market is an incredible thing. It turns an uphill, soul-destroying grind into just keeping momentum going. Starting right now, I don't think you'd have anywhere near the success over 10 years that people celebrating their 10th+ year on youtube have enjoyed.

This was a good interesting video X! It's interesting to see how you think of your path in Hermitcraft not only as a player, but as the admin of the server/group. Something i've personally have never thought as a server admin is the "playing" and "being active" part of it, as I've always been a out-of-game administrator for some servers, and it's interesting how, looking back at your channel, all makes sense now! Thanks for sharing your thoughs and process, it's really interesting!

OMG, its so awesome seeing the old footage. seeing former members who aren't around anymore

Yes, transparency and communication are my number one rules when working in a cooperative. We don't take decision without everybody involved, we always work by consensus and we respect that not everybody wants the same thing as us but there is always a place for everyone for their own little project inside the bigger one when they don't feel the need to join X or Y work. It takes more time (we have a 2 hour meeting every week) but everyone knows what's up, can be part of the decision and we don't form smaller group that, with time, stop talking to each other and lors communication over time that I saw happen so many times in other group. We also try to balance "fun" work with "boring" work for everybody so that there is not someone stuck with a task that nobody wants while another have all the "fun" tasks. I could spend hours talking about the benefits of those, but talk to each other with everyone involve, trust me, if there is someone not working, ruining the project or "plotting" against the group, you'll find it very quick and we'll be able to handle it collectively without anyone having to take side or things escalading quickly and threatening the whole project.

Who else to give us the best Minecraft leadership lesson than Xisuma, the OG Minecrafter and the leader of Hermitcraft himself? Thank you for the video X :)

Seeing this reminded me of all the old Hermits like DMac, Biffa and even Mariland even though he was only briefly part of it