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Regardless of Your Role
Johanna Rothman
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TraditionalView of Leadership
• Guide, champion,“lead”
• Champion a cause
• People follow you
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DoTraditional Leadership
Views Fit Agile?
• Agile is about team
collaboration
• Servant leadership
• We need leaders at all
“levels” in agile
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Common Themes
• See a problem
• Brainstorm ideas to solve
it
• Involve others
• Experiment
• Create a new reality
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What is Leadership?
• Change something about
the status quo
• Collaborate with others
• Create effective change
when the situation
changes
• Adaptability
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Adaptable leaders create
effective change when the
situation changes.
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Change Invites Reinvention
• Take advantage of
opportunities
• Make more opportunities
• Experiment
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Why DoYou MakeYour
Choices?
• We each have a personal
mission
• You can discover this with
a career timeline
• Your timeline explains
your values
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Start With Why
• What do you desire for
fulfilling work?
• Purpose (why)
• Autonomy (how)
• Mastery (how and what)
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Everyone Lives Up or Down
to Expectations
• Expectations shape us
• Everyone on your team
has potential—of some
sort
• It’s all about mindset
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Start WithYour Mindset
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Carol Dweck,
Mindset
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Focus on the Possible
• When you focus, you
change how your brain
works
• When you consider the
possible, your
expectations shape reality
• Source: http://
www.strategy-
business.com/article/
06207?pg=all
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Changing Mindset is
Challenging
• We often confuse our
roles or titles with our
identities
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Have the Courage to
Become…
• A T-shaped person
• Someone who questions
the way things are
• Collaborative
• Change artist
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Inspect and Adapt to Change
• Ability to solve problems
• Focus on what could be
• Adaptability
• Perseverance
• Leadership
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Inspect
Adapt
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How DoYou Solve Problems?
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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People don’t resist change;
They resist being changed.
— Peter Senge
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WaysYou Persevere
• Tell yourself the value of
the change
• Know what keeps you
going
• Celebrate incremental
progress
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Agile is Change
• Cultural change
• Project change
• Process change
• Teams might change
• Each person can become
a leader in a self-
organizing team
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Become a Change Artist
• Invite people to change
• Experiment
• Listen to everyone
• Don’t label people
• Start with the smallest
possible change
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Artistry is Difficult
• Requires a particular
mindset:
• Let’s experiment
• Let’s learn early (instead
of fail fast)
• Let’s learn as we go
• Think Growth Mindset
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Lead from Anywhere
• Your title is irrelevant
• Your actions count
• Adapt
• You can change to fit your
reality
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Agile Leadership
• Start with yourself…
• See the environment/
system:
• What needs to change?
• Work with others to
effect change
• Learn from results
• Do it again
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References and Resources
• My questions on
createadaptablelife.com
• Pragmatic Manager and
other articles on
jrothman.com
• Explore more at the
InfluentialAgileLeader.com
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Let’s Stay in Touch
• Pragmatic Manager:
• www.jrothman.com/
pragmaticmanager
• Please link with me on
LinkedIn
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