Journey to Agile Leadership and VUCA World
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This document discusses the journey from traditional management to agile leadership. It outlines how the business environment has become volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It advocates for building projects around motivated individuals, giving them support and trust. Agile leadership principles discussed include leading with intent, seeking incremental solutions, valuing networks over hierarchy, prioritizing learning, and applying systems thinking. Context is important and leadership is a learnable skill.
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Journey to Agile Leadership and VUCA World
- 2. BUILD PROJECTS AROUND MOTIVATED INDIVIDUALS. GIVE THEM THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT THEY NEED, AND TRUST THEM TO GET THE JOB DONE AGILE MANIFESTO
- 3. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT • REPLACEMENT OF OLD RULE OF THUMB METHOD • Scientific Selection and Training of Workers • Co-Operation between Labour and Management • Maximum Output • Equal Division of Responsibility • Mental Revolution
- 4. TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT CORE BELIEFS Micromanagement works Hierarchy gets things done Motivation - Carrots & Sticks
- 5. V.U.C.A OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED We live in a world of perpetual volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
- 6. VOLATILE Sense of feeling overwhelmed, Requires accelerated decision making UNCERTAINTY Act on incomplete and insufficient information, Difficult to "connect the dots"
- 7. COMPLEXITY Where to start, Risk of acting too quickly or too late AMBIGUOUS Misinterpret events and act with limited understanding, Respond inappropriately or ineffectively
- 8. WE'LL START THE WAR FROM RIGHT HERE GENERAL ROOSEVELT DISCOVERED THAT A COMBINATION OF FACTORS BEYOND HIS CONTROL HAD DRIVEN HIS LANDING PARTY MORE THAN A MILE SOUTH OF WHERE THEY HAD PLANNED TO HIT THE BEACH 6TH JUNE 1944, NORMANDY BEACH
- 9. SENSE MAKING IS CRITICAL Best practice was yesterday. Best thinking is in demand today and tomorrow (vuca-world.org) CYNEFIN FRAMEWORK
- 10. MY JOURNEY SO FAR DEVELOPER Code is beautiful PROJECT MANAGER Get things done AGILE COMMUNITY LEADER Influence and Impact
- 11. AGILE LEADERSHIP PATTERNS IN SELF AND OTHERS
- 12. LEAD WITH INTENT ENSURE THE INTENT IS UNDERSTOOD
- 16. Prioritize Learning WHEN I FAIL How can I be better and not repeat the same mistakes again? WHEN TEAMS FAIL What can we do differently to be successful next time? EXPERIMENT AND INNOVATE A ship in harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built or.
- 17. APPLY SYSTEMS THINKING UNDERSTANDING THE SYSTEM, OPTIMIZE THE SYSTEM
- 18. SIMPLIFY MAKE EVERYTHING AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE BUT NOT SIMPLER Process Tools Interactions Integrations
- 19. ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL THERE IS NEVER A CONTEXT IS KING (OR QUEEN)
- 20. Leadership is a skill, a learnable, practicable skill, and the best leaders don't consider themselves experts— they consider themselves students - SIMON SINEK
Editor's Notes
- This is a short talk on agile leadership. Based on My experiences . My learnings. Am here to share with you my journey to be an agile leader. I am Hrishikesh Karekar, I have been an agile coach for last 10+ years leading very large transformations.
- Motivated teams are fundamental to being agile. Leadership plays a big role in creating. Especially creating the culture that builds motivated teams.
- However a lot of leadership is still stuck in what is called as Taylorism. Scientific management. Where we think of people as resources. They are not. They are people.
- This thinking fundamentally operates on 3 core beliefs
- But our world has changed. We live in a VUCA world
- They are always overwhelmed. The are required to make fast decisions.. Often on incomplete and insufficient info. They struggle to connect the dots.
- It’s a challenge to know where to start ..and they are worried if they are acting too quickly or too late. This is because unfolding events are hard to interpret.. And no example is better than this than what is unfolded in Afghanistan. It has taken everyone by surprise.
- The world has always been VUCA.. And good leaders have always been agile. There is story of D-Day. Roosevelt and his troops landed on a wrong beach.. And he says.. The wars begins from here.
- Much later people started to call is the Cynefin framework. It helped leaders make sense of their environment. And that different situations require different responses.
- This is my journey and maybe its similar for all of you. We started as developers where full focus was code.. Then shifted to being managers.. Where we are expected to get things done.. And then in todays VUCA world we are expected to influence and impact.
- I have discovered 7 distinct patterns which I think helped me to success and I have seen in others as well.
- We have to lead with intent, Make sure the intent is understood. This is harder part.. To convey someone what you mean.. It goes beyond the words that u say..and requires u to build that skill.
- Another crucial one and fundamental to agile. Feedback loops in anything and everything. Whatever u do. We need to have an iterative and incremental approach.
- Hierarchy is good. But a network gets things done much faster. Much better. But u need to build it before u need it. The network has to be strong to leverage when u need the collaboration.
- Something related to hierarchy. Power can get u compliance but not excellence. I learnt that building commitment and consensus is crucial. That is how we can create a good agile culture where people feel safe.
- We have to prioritize learning
- Systems thinking seems obvious but it is like common sense. It is very uncommon. Most people don’t get it. Because they don’t understand their system.. Only their silo. You have to understand your system. You have to optimize your system.
- Steve Jobs made simplicity popular and it indeed is powerful. Again most people struggle with it. We need to make everything simpler…
- These are few attributes that have helped me and what I believe are good characteristics of an agile style of leadership. Context is important. The fundamental rule in agile is there is no rule. No one ring to rule all.
- Lastly. I want to say that many of these skills require practice. I have been doing that several years and still continue. And there are more not listed here. So if you want to be an agile leader. Keep practicing.
- Thank you