Elastic leadership : growing self-organizing teams / Roy Osherove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osherove, Roy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Teams in the workplace.

Self-organizing systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Shelter Island, New York : Manning, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Summary Elastic leadership is a framework and philosophy that can help you as you manage day-to-day and long-term challenges and strive to create the elusive self-organizing team. It is about understanding that your leadership needs to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in. This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role. About the Technology Your team looks to you for guidance. You have to mediate heated debates. The team is constantly putting out fires instead of doing the right things, the right way. Everyone seems to want to do things correctly, but nobody seems to be doing so. This is where leaders get stuck. It’s time to get unstuck! Elastic leadership is a novel approach that helps you adapt your leadership style to the phase your team is in, so you can stay in step as things change. About the Book Elastic Leadership is a practical, experience-driven guide to team leadership. In it, you’ll discover a set of values, techniques, and practices to lead your team to success. First, you’ll learn what elastic leadership is and explore the phases of this results-oriented framework. Then, you’ll see it in practice through stories, anecdotes, and advice provided by successful leaders in a variety of disciplines, all annotated by author and experienced team leader, Roy Osherove. What’s Inside Understanding why people do what they do Effective coaching Influencing team members and managers Advice from industry leaders About the Reader This book is for anyone with a year or more of experience working on a team as a lead or team member. About the Author Roy Osherove is the DevOps process lead for the West Coast at EMC, based in California. He is also the author of The Art of Unit Testing (Manning, 2013) and Enterprise DevOps (http://enterprisedevops.org). He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of leadership, unit testing, test-driven development, and continuous-delivery automation. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others. You can find more info at these sites: ElasticLeadership.com—The blog that started this book Osherove.com—Roy’s other blog Osherove Online Training (courses.osherove.com)—Roy’s online training on TDD, DevOps, and, soon, elastic leadership

Contents:

Part 1. Understanding elastic leadership. Striving toward a team leader manifesto

Matching leadership styles to team phases

Dealing with bus factors

Part 2. Survival mode. Dealing with survival mode

Part 3. Learning mode. Learning to learn

Commitment language

Growing people

Part 4. Self-organization mode. Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization

Influence patterns

The line manager manifesto

Part 5. Notes to a software team leader.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781638351085

1638351082

9781617293085

1617293083

OCLC:

966617007