Lead the Play: Leadership Lessons from Space Pirates
What if you could organize and motivate people to double their highest-expected productivity goals? The **future of leadership** is emerging to guide 21st-century organizations beyond the small, cross-functional, green-field software […]
Empathy: A Keystone Leadership Habit
“How information is communicated to employees during a change matters more than what information is communicated. A lack of audience empathy when conveying news about an organizational transformation can cause […]
Mastering self-organization
Self-organization is one of the fundamental aspects of agile organizations. Yet it is a challenge and there are lots of myths around it. Some people say: “With self-organization, I lose […]
Evolving Agile Leadership at Riot Games. A Story of Challenging Convention
In this talk, Ahmed shares his reflections on Agile Leadership in general and share the frameworks and current ways of thinking about leadership at Riot Games.
Accelerating Good Decisions: Using Kanban for Distributed Cognition
This talk describes how distributed cognition works and gives you specific ideas for how to accelerate effective decisions with your Kanban system.
The Agile Mindset – what’s next?
Linda Rising combines research on mindset and trust to show how having an agile mindset means more openness means better collaboration means better team work.
Agile Leadership: Practical Steps to a Delicate Balance
“Step up! Step back!”… “Be a leader! Empower the team!”… “Improve predictability! Embrace change!”… Are these messages making your head spin? You are not alone. Many people who are new […]
Don’t just do something, stand there! Why being “productive” is slowing us down.
What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? What’s getting in your way? Three questions commonly asked at Daily Scrum meetings imply expending effort is the purpose of […]
The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with […]
How to Create Leaders at All Levels
Organizations that need to respond to a fast-changing environment and desire continuous improvement can’t wait for the chain of command or rely on detailed rules and procedures. They need a […]
Building Blocks of a Knowledge Work Culture
Much of what we’ve learned about management and motivation isn’t necessarily wrong, it’s just inappropriate and ineffective for knowledge work. From hierarchies to bonuses for hitting goals, how we’re structured, […]
Leadership at Spotify
Spotify have been growing quickly as a company, and we are continuously experimenting with ways of making the company work as effectively as possible. Creating strong team autonomy and making […]
