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Leading Self-organised Teams

From
Siegfried Kaltenecker
Topic
Skills

A blueprint for knowledge worker leadership

75 % of employees lack motivation and only 15 % of all teams are able to realise their full potential. As a result, 60% to 80% of all change projects fail. There are many reasons for this: lack of transparency, weak change management, lack of feedback loops, but not least the obsessive idea that successful change can be ensured by detailed project plans. The often empty rituals of planning, commanding and the stifling bureaucracy of control systems nip many improvement initiatives in the bud. These are just some of the symptoms of traditional management.

However, emerging trends in technology, society and politics are changing the market situation faster and faster. Change is becoming mandatory for organisations. It is time to develop organisational forms that learn faster, communicate more transparently, are more personally satisfying and increase motivation and fun. The agile manifesto even claims; "The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organised teams". This claim raises some questions: What do such teams look like? What form of leadership do they need? And how can this be implemented in a way that promotes self-organisation?

This book offers practical answers to all these questions. Siegfried Kaltenecker describes how leadership works in a self-organising environment and gives many hints on how to develop one's own leadership skills. He introduces the basics and the core values of self-organised teams: commitment, simplicity, respect and courage. Using concrete case studies from the lean and agile world, he then describes in detail the core competencies that guide action: focusing, designing, facilitating and changing. For each competence, he has concrete tools at hand, such as customer radar, visual work management, humble questioning or feedback planners, with which the reader can follow the implementation in practice.

In this book, you will learn how interdisciplinary leadership and shared management responsibility can be applied in practice, and you will also receive many suggestions to specifically expand your own skills.