People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives
If, as Jerry Weinberg points, leadership is a process of creating an environment where people become empowered let’s focus on how we create and evolve environments we work at. One thing is how we build our teams. If we focus only on technical skills we won’t cover the leadership gap. Another issue is the system. As W. Edwards Deming famously said, a bad system will defeat a good person every time. If we hire great people but put them in highly constrained environment they won’t thrive. Lastly, we have an organizational culture, which is a steering force behind everyday leadership acts or lack of them. It is also one of the main reasons why many transformations fail. I will show how all these areas are inseparably interconnected and how we need to change all three to evolve toward participatory leadership. The end result is that every team member overtakes a role of a leader dynamically, depending on the context. Research on collective intelligence shows how flawed our recruitment approaches are. Experience of system thinkers suggests how much potential is hidden in improving the system. Finally, an organizational culture is what adds meaning to our actions thus is a crucial enabler of change of our behaviors. These are building blocks of the participatory leadership approach. This isn’t just a theory. In Lunar Logic we’ve put this theory into practice. You will learn our story along with why we believe it works. Even though some of the ideas shared during the session may sound counter-intuitive or even radical we are the living proof that it can be done.
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People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives
- 1. Pawel Brodzinski @pawelbrodzinski People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives
- 2. Hi, I’m Pawel Lunar Logic http://lunarlogic.io Blog http://brodzinski.com Twitter @pawelbrodzinski
- 3. Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered Gerald Weinberg Source: G. Weinberg: Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
- 4. Empowerment
- 6. 95% of performance is attributable to the system
- 9. Development of software products is a betting business
- 10. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once Mark Cuban Source: G. http://blogmaverick.com/2005/05/30/success- and-motivation-you-only-have-to-be-right-once/
- 11. The system in knowledge work
- 12. People and the system is a symbiotic relationship. One doesn't govern the other. Jim Benson
- 13. People versus system is a false dichotomy
- 15. Ad-hoc teams
- 17. Autonomy
- 18. A system is not a sum of behaviors of its parts; it's a product of their interactions Russel Ackoff
- 19. What makes one a great candidate?
- 21. Craftsmanship?
- 23. Learning?
- 24. Superhero
- 25. in·tel·li·gence noun in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s (1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests) Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence
- 26. A system is not a sum of behaviors of its parts; it's a product of their interactions Russel Ackoff
- 29. There’s no connection between individual intelligence and collective intelligence Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 30. Collective intelligence trumps individual intelligence
- 31. Collective intelligence was much more predictive in terms of succeeding in complex tasks than average individual intelligence or maximal individual intelligence Anita Woolley
- 32. Indicators of collective intelligence Social perceptiveness Evenness of communication Moderate cognitive style diversity Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 33. How would you feel about working with women in your team?
- 34. The more women the better collective intelligence* Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- 36. Sofware development is a team sport
- 39. Two days of my work was summarized by a commit that adds five lines of code and removes two Marcin Kostrzewa, Lunar Logic
- 43. 40% women
- 44. Not enough women in the industry?
- 45. No formal leadership Emergent, contextual leadership
- 47. A bad system will defeat a good person every time W. Edwards Deming
- 48. organizational culture the behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people react to their actions includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols, beliefs, and habits Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture
- 54. Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered Gerald Weinberg Source: G. Weinberg: Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
- 55. How far can people go changing the system?
- 56. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission Grace Hopper
- 57. Respect for people does not mean, you have to like them, agree with them or fail to challenge any half baked ideas you hear from them Stephen Parry
- 58. How new hires infuence organizational culture?
- 59. Hiring for cultural fit
- 60. groupthink psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
- 61. What would happen if we tore down existing hierarchies?
- 62. #NoManagement
- 64. Emergent values
- 69. If you don’t know what to tell, tell the truth
- 72. CEO role
- 74. Cultural fit
- 75. Let misfits go
- 76. lead·er·ship noun ˈliːdəʃɪp (1) : The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this (2) : The state or position of being a leader Source: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/leadership
- 77. How we design and evolve the system
- 78. Who is capable of leading
- 79. How leadership skills are used
- 80. What kind of stuff people can influence
- 82. The ultimate goal: everyone is a leader