Unleash Your Agile Leadership Potential and Guide Your Entire Organization Toward Agility In this complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable world, radically agile organizations thrive when they combine strong local autonomy with deeply shared goals. Leadership is a key factor--individuals who welcome complexity and know how to leverage influence, culture, and organizational design to align widely distributed teams are integral to success. Renowned agile coach Zuzana Sochov� presents the skills and techniques you need to become that needed agile leader. Sochov� provides inspirational…mehr
Unleash Your Agile Leadership Potential and Guide Your Entire Organization Toward Agility In this complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable world, radically agile organizations thrive when they combine strong local autonomy with deeply shared goals. Leadership is a key factor--individuals who welcome complexity and know how to leverage influence, culture, and organizational design to align widely distributed teams are integral to success. Renowned agile coach Zuzana Sochov� presents the skills and techniques you need to become that needed agile leader. Sochov� provides inspirational examples drawing on her experience working with leaders in organizations of all sizes, in multiple industries, worldwide. Through practical exercises and assessments, you learn how to unleash your potential, become a better catalyst and community builder, sensibly apply transparency, improve functions from HR to finance, and guide entire organizations toward greater agility. * Build a powerful shared vision and change organizations and cultures to achieve it * Explore types and models of agile leadership and choose styles that leverage your strengths * Practice the competencies and high-level cognitive meta-skills of agile leadership * Understand and promote agility at the executive and board levels * Master practical techniques such as large group facilitation, system coaching, trust building, and team formation * Lead in a world of soaring volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity The Agile Leader is for managers, directors, executives, and entrepreneurs--anyone, regardless of position, who is ready to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and become a true agile leader. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Zuzana ochov� is an independent agile leadership coach and Certified Agile Leadership Educator (CALE), who specializes in leadership, coaching, facilitation, and culture change using agile and Scrum in both startups and large enterprises. ochov� led one of the Czech Republic's first agile international projects, focusing on distributed Scrum teams working across Europe and the US. She has promoted agile adoption in telco, finance, healthcare, automotive, mobile, and high-tech software companies. A widely recognized public speaker, she co-founded the Czech agile community, which organizes the annual Agile Prague Conference. The author of The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley, 2017) and inventor of the #ScrumMasterWay concept, she has been elected by the agile community to the Board of the Scrum Alliance and was named one of 2019's top project management influencers.
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Forewords xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxiii Part I: Agile LeaderUnleash Your Leadership Potential 1 Chapter 1: How It All Started 3 The Need for Change 6 Chapter 2: Leadership Is a State of Mind 9 What Is Agile? 9 Chapter 3: Organizational Evolution 25 Organization 1.0: Traditional 25 Organization 2.0: Knowledge 28 Organization 3.0: Agile 31 Reflect on Your Organization 34 Chapter 4: The Agile Leader 37 The Servant Leader 40 The Leader-Leader 44 The Leadership Agility: From Expert to Catalyst 48 Chapter 5: The Agile Leadership Model 75 Get Awareness 77 Embrace It 78 Chapter 6: Competencies 87 Vision and Purpose 88 Three Levels of Reality 92 High Dream and Low Dream 94 Bringing Down the Vision 95 Motivation 100 Engagement 107 Super-chickens 109 Feedback 113 Giving Feedback 116 Learn from Feedback 119 Decision 122 Sociocracy 124 Power and Control Cycles 126 Collaboration 128 Facilitation 132 Four-Player Model 134 Coaching 139 Change 141 The Change Dynamic 142 Force Fields 145 Competencies Self-Evaluation 148 Chapter 7: Meta-skills 153 The Me Domain 154 The We Domain 155 The World Domain 156 Chapter 8: Building an Agile Organization 161 Inside Out 162 Evolutionary Purpose 166 Emergent Leadership 168 Culture 172 We Culture 183 Competing Values 194 Network Structure 200 Smart versus Healthy 202 Reinventing Organizations 205 Part II: The Different Parts of an Agile Organization 211 Chapter 9: Business Agility 213 Agile at the Executive Level 216 The CEO in an Agile Organization 220 Agile Board of Directors 223 Chapter 10: Agile HR and Finance 229 Agile HR 229 Agile Finance 253 Chapter 11: Tools and Practices 257 System Coaching and Facilitation 257 Open Space 259 World Caf� 270 Systems Thinking 274 Radical Transparency 277 Experiment, Inspect, and Adapt 285 Be Inclusive 286 Have Courage 288 Growing Trust 290 Teamwork 296 Building Communities 298 Chapter 12: Summary 303 Organizational Perspective 304 Agile Leader Perspective 307 What's Next 310 Bibliography 313 Index 321
Forewords xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxiii Part I: Agile LeaderUnleash Your Leadership Potential 1 Chapter 1: How It All Started 3 The Need for Change 6 Chapter 2: Leadership Is a State of Mind 9 What Is Agile? 9 Chapter 3: Organizational Evolution 25 Organization 1.0: Traditional 25 Organization 2.0: Knowledge 28 Organization 3.0: Agile 31 Reflect on Your Organization 34 Chapter 4: The Agile Leader 37 The Servant Leader 40 The Leader-Leader 44 The Leadership Agility: From Expert to Catalyst 48 Chapter 5: The Agile Leadership Model 75 Get Awareness 77 Embrace It 78 Chapter 6: Competencies 87 Vision and Purpose 88 Three Levels of Reality 92 High Dream and Low Dream 94 Bringing Down the Vision 95 Motivation 100 Engagement 107 Super-chickens 109 Feedback 113 Giving Feedback 116 Learn from Feedback 119 Decision 122 Sociocracy 124 Power and Control Cycles 126 Collaboration 128 Facilitation 132 Four-Player Model 134 Coaching 139 Change 141 The Change Dynamic 142 Force Fields 145 Competencies Self-Evaluation 148 Chapter 7: Meta-skills 153 The Me Domain 154 The We Domain 155 The World Domain 156 Chapter 8: Building an Agile Organization 161 Inside Out 162 Evolutionary Purpose 166 Emergent Leadership 168 Culture 172 We Culture 183 Competing Values 194 Network Structure 200 Smart versus Healthy 202 Reinventing Organizations 205 Part II: The Different Parts of an Agile Organization 211 Chapter 9: Business Agility 213 Agile at the Executive Level 216 The CEO in an Agile Organization 220 Agile Board of Directors 223 Chapter 10: Agile HR and Finance 229 Agile HR 229 Agile Finance 253 Chapter 11: Tools and Practices 257 System Coaching and Facilitation 257 Open Space 259 World Caf� 270 Systems Thinking 274 Radical Transparency 277 Experiment, Inspect, and Adapt 285 Be Inclusive 286 Have Courage 288 Growing Trust 290 Teamwork 296 Building Communities 298 Chapter 12: Summary 303 Organizational Perspective 304 Agile Leader Perspective 307 What's Next 310 Bibliography 313 Index 321
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