This document summarizes the key duties of an agile leader. It discusses how leadership can be viewed as designing games that motivate teams and provide feedback. An agile leader focuses on cultivating the right view, listening, speech, mind and actions. This involves qualities like ontological humility, deep listening without judgment, and careful, thoughtful communication. The overall message is that an enlightened leadership approach can help guide teams in a balanced and sustainable way.

1. 2013
Design
Games.
Enlighten
the
Path.
The
two
Du5es
of
the
Agile
Leader
Gustavo
Quiroz
Madueño

2. Licencia
de
Uso
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3. Leadership…
Are
you
serious?
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business
books
when
searching
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“leadership”:
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Hardcover
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Kindle

5. What
is
a
Leader?
• “Anyone
who
influences
anyone
else
in
a
social
seOng,
such
as
a
team
or
organiza5on.”
Daniel
Mezick

6. The
Technical
Leader

7. So
what
do
we
do
now?

9. Agile
Growing
Pains
• Scrum
is
Product
Centric.
• RUP
vs.
XP
vs.
Scrum
vs.
Kanban
vs.
LKU
Kanban
vs.
SAFe
• How
many
specific
Scrum
Masters
&
Product
Owners
hiring
ads
have
you
posted?
• How
can
my
team
adopt
agile
prac5ces
pragma5cally?

11. This
is
not
new!
• “SoVware
development
is
a
cooperaGve
game
of
inven5on
and
communica5on.”
Alistair
Cockburn

13. SuperBeXer:
Jane
McGonigal

15. The
4
Traits
of
a
Game

16. Why
Scrum
works
• “The
Scrum
framework
qualifies
as
a
good
game.
”
Daniel
Mezick

17. “We
dream
of
a
world
of
happy,
self-­‐managed
&
organic
organiza5ons
where
people,
through
values
&
principles,
generate
transcendent
and
holis5c
results
that
build
a
balanced
and
sustainable
society.
”
Purpose

18. Rules
Rules

19. Feedback
System

20. Voluntary
Par5cipa5on

21. Why
does
it
work?

22. Many,
many
games
• Parallel
Games
&
Games
Within
Games
• Group
&
Team
Games
– Mee5ngs
– Projects
• Company
Games
– Defea5ng
the
compe55on
– Hackathons
– Open
Spaces
• Individual
Games
– Career

23. The
Leader
as
Game
Designer

24. Isn’t
this
Gamifica5on?

25. Isn’t
playing
games
at
work
bad?

26. How
to
avoid
manipula5on?

28. The
Enlightened
Path

29. Enlighten
yourself
to
enlighten
others

30. The
Right
View
• We
don’t
all
see
the
same
stuff.
• We
see
what
we
perceive
not
what
“is”.
• Avoid
ontological
arrogance.

31. Ontological
Humility
• “It
is
the
acknowledgement
that
you
do
not
have
a
special
claim
on
reality
or
truth
and
that
others
have
equally
valid
perspec5ves
deserving
respect
and
considera5on.”
• “Most
people
do
not
naturally
act
from
this
understanding.”
Fred
Kofman
(MIT)

32. The
Right
Listening
• Ac5ve
&
Deep
Listening
• Not
preparing
an
answer
while
listening.
• Not
assuming
we
understood
what
we
heard.
• Not
assuming
we
understood
what
was
intended.

33. The
Right
Speech
• “Be
impeccable
with
your
words.”
• Learn
communica5on
models:
– SVO(p)
– NVC
– ORID
– TA,
NLP,
etc.
• Beware
of
phrases:
– I
have
to…
– “Hay
que”
– I
can’t

34. The
Right
Mind
&
Right
Ac5on

35. Design
Games.
Enlighten
the
Path.

36. ¡Gracias!
Gustavo
Quiroz
gustavo.quiroz@kleer.la
about.me/gustavo.quiroz
@quiroz_gustavo
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