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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.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
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. 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 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
Feeding back
Channel conflict into learning
It´s probably not a technical problem
Review the code
Document your air, food, and water
Appraisals and agile don´t play nicely
Leading through learning: the responsibilities of a team leader
Introduction to the Core Protocols
Change your mind: your product is your team
Leadership and the mature team
Spread your workload
Making your team manage their own work
Go see, ask why, show respect
Keep developers happy, reap high-quality work
Stop doing their work
Write code, but not too much
Evolving from manager to leader
Affecting the pace of change
Proximity management
Babel Fish
You´re the lead, not the know-it-all
Actions speak louder than words