Agile Leadership

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Agile Leadership

Aachen, November 2012

Or The Joy of Herding Cats


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Ángel Medinilla!

You killed my father,

prepare to die…!



My Pleasure!!


“The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao” - Lao Tzu


Some preliminary questions…


What is Leadership? How it’s different from

Management or Coaching?


What’s Agile Leadership? How it’s different from non-Agile

Leadership?


Are Leadership and Management required at all? Isn’t Agile about

Self-Organization?



Again…


My School…


Let’s go WAY back in time…


Some centuries

closer..


The First Companies


The 19th century problem:


A giant leap for mankind!


Taylor’s vision of workers

(Theory X)


Why do I get an un-needed brain every time I hire a pair of hands?


Hence…




“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave”


(Unwanted) side effects…


“The trouble with coercive power is that it only strengthens resistance. And, if successful, its controlling effect lasts only as long as the force is strong. It is not organic . Only persuasion and the consequent voluntary acceptance are organic.”


The rise of a new species


Meanwhile, lots of things happen…

50’s 60’s 70’s…

Herzberg – Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

Demnming– Pride of Workforce

McKnight – unleash talent

McGregor – Theory X/Y

Matsuhita – cooperative workforce

Ohno - TPS


Not all of them for good!

Gordon Gekko

Pointy Haired Boss

Bill Lumbergh

Michael Scott

80’s 90’s 00’s…

Katharine Parker


The struggle with Taylorism


Values

Principles

Processes

Roles

Tools

Artifacts

Practices

The Management 2.0 problem:


Values

Principles

Processes

Roles

Tools

Artifacts

Practices

The Management 2.0 problem:


Management 3.0


Management 3.0

A software team is a self organizing system: support it, don’t obstruct it

Agile Managers work the system around the team, not the people in the team

http://www.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/what-is-agile-management



All right about Management but…What about

LEADERSHIP?


Fact #1: People

to be led

WANT


“People want to sign on. They want to be enrolled. Nobody listening to the president that day had the reaction ‘Oh damn, now I have to do stuff for my country’. On the contrary, they were delighted. The emergence of a leader is a source of satisfaction and completion for all. People want to be led toward a vision that is consistent with reality and their present assessment of the culture. When an organization is in drift and then suddenly everyone is aware that a hand has taking the helm, the sense of relief is palpable. The fact that people want to be led is what makes leadership possible at all.”


Fact #2: Leadership is about

CULTURE


Values Noble Cause

Artifacts


Tribal Leader does not

IMPOSE Cause, Values and Artifacts


Instead, he

ENGAGES People in exploring their values


And then he

PROTECTS The Tribe’s Identity


Leaders Become living

AVATARS Of the Tribe Culture


(No, not this kind)


Fact #3: There are many

LEADERS


Team Leader!


Technical Leader!


Business Leader!


Style Leader!


Party Leader!


Fact #4: you just can’t

IMPOSE Leadership


Corollary to fact #4: Command and Control

KILLS Leadership


”If I tell a man to do what he does not want to do, I am no longer chief!”


But then… How do I make them do what needs to be done?


Answer #1:

DON’T!


Answer #2: Learn to manage by

(enough for a whole seminar!!!)

CONTEXT


Fact #5: It’s not about

YOU any more


“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

they will say: we did it ourselves.”- Lao Tzu


Fact #6: Leadership requires

ACTION



FAITH



DRIVE



As a conclusion…


Become and embrace the

change you want to see in your

world!


Inspire! ”If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery


Inspire! ”If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery Me


Now go and

LEAD!


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