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Book SynopsisZuzana Šochová is an independent agile leadership coach and Certified Agile Leadership Educator (CALE), who specializes in leadership, coaching, facilitation, and culture change using agile and Scrum in both startups and large enterprises. Šochová led one of the Czech Republic's first agile international projects, focusing on distributed Scrum teams working across Europe and the US. She has promoted agile adoption in telco, finance, healthcare, automotive, mobile, and high-tech software companies. A widely recognized public speaker, she co-founded the Czech agile community, which organizes the annual Agile Prague Conference. The author of
The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay (Addison-Wesley, 2017) and inventor of the #ScrumMasterWay concept, she has been elected by the agile community to the Board of the Scrum Alliance and was named one of 2019's top project management influencers.
Table of ContentsForewords xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii Part I: Agile Leader—Unleash Your Leadership Potential 1
Chapter 1: How It All Started 3 The Need for Change 6
Chapter 2: Leadership Is a State of Mind 9 What Is Agile? 9
Chapter 3: Organizational Evolution 25 Organization 1.0: Traditional 25
Organization 2.0: Knowledge 28
Organization 3.0: Agile 31
Reflect on Your Organization 34
Chapter 4: The Agile Leader 37 The Servant Leader 40
The Leader-Leader 44
The Leadership Agility: From Expert to Catalyst 48
Chapter 5: The Agile Leadership Model 75 Get Awareness 77
Embrace It 78
Chapter 6: Competencies 87 Vision and Purpose 88
Three Levels of Reality 92
High Dream and Low Dream 94
Bringing Down the Vision 95
Motivation 100
Engagement 107
Super-chickens 109
Feedback 113
Giving Feedback 116
Learn from Feedback 119
Decision 122
Sociocracy 124
Power and Control Cycles 126
Collaboration 128
Facilitation 132
Four-Player Model 134
Coaching 139
Change 141
The Change Dynamic 142
Force Fields 145
Competencies Self-Evaluation 148
Chapter 7: Meta-skills 153 The Me Domain 154
The We Domain 155
The World Domain 156
Chapter 8: Building an Agile Organization 161 Inside Out 162
Evolutionary Purpose 166
Emergent Leadership 168
Culture 172
“We” Culture 183
Competing Values 194
Network Structure 200
Smart versus Healthy 202
Reinventing Organizations 205
Part II: The Different Parts of an Agile Organization 211
Chapter 9: Business Agility 213 Agile at the Executive Level 216
The CEO in an Agile Organization 220
Agile Board of Directors 223
Chapter 10: Agile HR and Finance 229 Agile HR 229
Agile Finance 253
Chapter 11: Tools and Practices 257 System Coaching and Facilitation 257
Open Space 259
World Café 270
Systems Thinking 274
Radical Transparency 277
Experiment, Inspect, and Adapt 285
Be Inclusive 286
Have Courage 288
Growing Trust 290
Teamwork 296
Building Communities 298
Chapter 12: Summary 303 Organizational Perspective 304
Agile Leader Perspective 307
What's Next 310
Bibliography 313
Index 321
