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I often hear complaints that we don’t have enough great leaders in our organizations. If, as Jerry Weinberg points, leadership is a process of creating an environment where people become empowered let’s focus on how we create and evolve environments we work at. One issue is the system. W. Edwards Deming famously said that a bad system will defeat a good person every time. Then we should discuss how we build our teams and how it contributes to our goals. Finally, we have organizational culture that is blood of every company and influence all behaviors. All these bits are inseparably interconnected thus if we want to create an environment where leadership thrives we need to take all of them into account. Let’s take a look at how these ideas may be applied in practice. In Lunar Logic eventually but inevitably everyone becomes a leader. We simply pay attention to how the organization is designed in a broader context. That’s the story I will share. After all, there's no shortage of leaders, only a shortage of companies that let leadership emerge.
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Pawel Brodzinski
@pawelbrodzinski
The Leadership Gap
Hi, I’m Pawel
Leadership is the process of
creating an environment in
which people become empowered
Gerald Weinberg
Source: G. Weinberg: Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
Teams
We don’t easily give up power
Ad-hoc teams
Emergent practices
Participation in strategy creation
Autonomy
A system is not a sum of
behaviors of its parts; it's a
product of their interactions
Russel Ackoff
People
Superheroculture
Sofware development is a team sport
Optimizing for collaboration
More women
Hiring for cultural fit
Emergent, contextual leadership
Empathy catalyzes everyone’s
development
A bad system will defeat a good
person every time
W. Edwards Deming
organizational culture
the behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people react to their actions includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and habits
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture
Companies with strong culture
don’t have their values printed
on the walls
Martin Jensen, #lkce14
Emergent values
If you don’t like something…
Software development business?
Two days of my work was
summarized by a commit that
adds five lines of code and
removes two
Marcin Kostrzewa, Lunar Logic
Happiness business!
Trust
Autonomy Mastery Purpose
Emergent leadership on all levels
Thank you
Pawel Brodzinski brodzinski.com
lunarlogic.io
@pawelbrodzinski
