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Agile Leadership
Common Leadership Concepts for Agile
No more HIPPO decisions
Catalyst Leadership Management 3.0 Systems Thinking Servant Leadership
in a Nutshell
Agile is Needed here
Lead in Complexity Complex
Creates Leaders
Cynefin
Leadership Styles
People are valuable
Probe Sense Respond Emergent
Intrinsic Motivation
Sense Analyze Respond Good Practices
Obvious
Less visible - more powerful
Sense Categorise Respond Best Practises
Agile Onion Mindset Values Principles Practices
More visible - less powerful
Impact Oriented Leadership
Build a bridge.
Move towards learning organisation
Smart
Task Focus
People are problems
Requires structural and cultural change
Expert Always Busy
Direct
Can be adopted in command and control
Tac t
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Individual Responsibility
Cynefin by Dave Snowden
High
Agile Onion by AWA, Simon Powers
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Result Focus
Clone Me
Middle Managaement (the more the merrier)
Communication down to top is not supported by the system.
VS
Top management is too far away to make good decisions based on customer needs ...
Customer
Alignment/Autonomy Leadership inspired by Henrik Kniberg
Customer
Information goes both ways and is transparent. Catalyst Leadership Top Mngm
Front Line
... those who have knowledge about customer needs don't have mandate to act on it.
Detailed Budgets
Shared Vision, Impact Goals & Activities
People are pawns
Leaders focus on fixing the system to enable best possible performance.
Expert, Achiever, Catalyst Leadership illustrations inspired by Peter Behrens
Resource Optimization
Strech Goals
Flow Optimization
I think this is the strategy we should have... Compete
... decisions and learn how to meet customer needs.
Cross Functional Agile Lean Teams & Support Teams
Top Mngm
Experiments
Extrinsic Motivaton
I-to-Many
Teams can make tactical data driven...
Controls with long term detailed budgets and projects.
Customer Focus - Long Term
Manipulates
Turn the Pyramid Upside Down
System built for Control
Hope someone is working on the river problem...
Autonomy
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"Lazy Workers" We need to cross the river. You can figure out how.
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Don't Listen
Ownership Focus - Short Term
Achiever Leadership gic Strate
Collaboration between silos is not supported.
Low
Pull
Achiever I-to-I
Many to Many
Listens & Integrates
Engage & Collaborate
Catalyst
Expert Leadership
Controls delivery against the plan.
Alignment
High
Tools and Processes
Coaching
Capacity of Leadership
Team Takes Responsibility
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Impact Focus
Time
Act Sense Respond Novel
Leads the Way & Enables
Manage the System
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Creates Safety & Trust
DISORDER
Chaos
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Agile Mindset
Transparent
Catalyst Leadership
Complicated
Posters in the Free Agile in a Nutshell series from Dandy People
Decisions made on Gut Feeling
Data Driven Decisions
Leaders asks and listens to what the organization needs to reach goals. Management are leading with clear vision and goals, making sure WHY is obvious to everyone.
"Empowered Teams"
System built for Flexibility
Focus on Control
Focus on Trust & Learning
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