Elastic Leadership: Growing selforganizing teams

Summaryelastic 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.Purchase Of The Print Book Includes A Free Ebook In Pdf, Kindle, And Epub Formats From Manning Publications.About The Technologyyour 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. ItS 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 Bookelastic Leadership Is A Practical, Experience-Driven Guide To Team Leadership. In It, YouLl Discover A Set Of Values, Techniques, And Practices To Lead Your Team To Success. First, YouLl Learn What Elastic Leadership Is And Explore The Phases Of This Results-Oriented Framework. Then, YouLl 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.WhatS Insideunderstanding Why People Do What They Doeffective Coachinginfluencing Team Members And Managersadvice From Industry Leadersabout The Readerthis Book Is For Anyone With A Year Or More Of Experience Working On A Team As A Lead Or Team Member.About The Authorroy 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. 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. Table Of Contentspart 1 - Understanding Elastic Leadershipstriving Toward A Team Leader Manifestomatching Leadership Styles To Team Phasesdealing With Bus Factorspart 2 - Survival Modedealing With Survival Modepart 3 - Learning Modelearning To Learncommitment Languagegrowing Peoplepart 4 - Self-Organization Modeusing Clearing Meetings To Advance Self-Organizationinfluence Patternsthe Line Manager Manifestopart 5 - Notes To A Software Team Leaderfeeding Backchannel Conflict Into LearningitS Probably Not A Technical Problemreview The Codedocument Your Air, Food, And Waterappraisals And Agile DonT Play Nicelyleading Through Learning: The Responsibilities Of A Team Leader Introduction To The Core Protocolschange Your Mind: Your Product Is Your Teamleadership And The Mature Teamspread Your Workloadmaking Your Team Manage Their Own Workgo See, Ask Why, Show Respectkeep Developers Happy, Reap High-Quality Workstop Doing Their Workwrite Code, But Not Too Muchevolving From Manager To Leaderaffecting The Pace Of Changeproximity Managementbabel FishyouRe The Lead, Not The Know-It-Allactions Speak Louder Than Words