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Developing Agile Leadership
Pete Behrens, CEC, CST®
Lars Bruns – GE Global Research
Philipp Engstler – Local.ch
Twitter:
#SAMW16 @scrumalliance and @petebehrens

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Pete Behrens, CEC, CST®
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• Leadership Agility Coach with Trail Ridge
• Guided organizational agility in many companies:
• Certified Leadership Agility 360 Coach
• Founder of the Scrum Alliance CEC Program
• Scrum Alliance board member
• Leading development of the new
Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)
Program for Scrum Alliance

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Global Agile Leadership Awareness
Today!
April
June
May
April
September

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AHA! Agile Leadership Awareness

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Agile Leadership Perception
The World of
Agile
The World of
Leadership
What
is it?

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Agile Leadership Reality
The World of
Agile
Leadership
Agile Organizations
need Leadership
Leaders need
to be agile

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I haven’t always been agile…
“I have a
confession…”
I am A
Recovering
asshole

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Why I know this…

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I’m not alone…
R. Hogan & Kaiser, 2005
What we know about leadership.
Review of General Psychology
“Climate surveys routinely
show that about 70% of
employees report the most
stressful aspect of their
jobs is the interaction with
their immediate boss.”
70%
Leadership
Failure

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My story as Development Mgr…

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How I came to “know”…
video

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My real AHA! motivator
We all need someone
like Jana in our lives…

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My AHA!
Task-focused
Do the work
People = problems
Expert
Leader

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I was promoted to a VP…

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My way to be agile…
Weisbart.com
Video

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My real AHA! moment…

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My AHA!
Results-focused
Direct the work
People = PawnsTask-focused
Do the work
People = Problems
Expert
Leader
Achiever
Leader

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My AHA! Agile Leadership Journey
1990 20152005 20101995 2000

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My AHA! Talk Journey
Agile
Leadership
Leadership
Evolution
Leadership
Perspective

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For 2.5 Million Years
200
Years
13,000
Years
before people settled…

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For 2.5 Million Years
‣ Small & nomadic
‣ Informal Task-based leadership
‣ Leaders emerged
‣ Low tolerance for dominance
‣ People were free to leave
AHA! people were agile… 200
Years
13,000
Years

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For 2.5 Million Years
“Self-organization is not a startling new feature of
the world.
It is what we do until we interfere with the
process and try to control one another.”
- Margaret Wheatley
AHA! people were agile… 200
Years
13,000
Years

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The Previous 13,000 Years
200
YearsThen people settled… 200
Years

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The Previous 13,000 Years
‣ Large sedentary city-states
‣ Formal hierarchical leadership
‣ Leaders imposed from above
‣ Dependent on city - not free to leave
‣ Power, wealth & dominance surge
then people settled… 200
Years

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The Previous 13,000 Years
“As leaders gained more relative power,
relations are based more on leaders’ ability to
dominate and exploit rather than benefit followers.”
- Price & Vugt 2014
assholes had a home… 200
Years

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The Last 200 Years…
200
Years
rapid rise in complexity & change

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The Last 200 Years…
‣ Large organizations
‣ Formal hierarchical leadership
‣ Leaders imposed from above
‣ Dependence on organization
‣ Power, wealth & dominance
AHA! organizations haven’t changed

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Today!
Choice of Leader
Team Power
Autonomy
Mobility
Preference Reality
Imposed Leaders
Hierarchical Power
Directive
Rigidity
AHA! it’s time for a change…

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My AHA! Talk Journey

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Agile Isn’t Sticking or Scaling…
Today’s Leadership
i
CULTURE
STRUCTURE
PROCESS
Super-sizing agile
processes fails to
penetrate and stick

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Scaling Agile Challenges
Company
culture
at odds with
agile values
46%
Management
concern about
loss of control
38%
Organizational
resistance to
change
42%

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Agile Leadership is the key
CULTURE
STRUCTURE
PROCESS
Leaders must
connect agile
values within the
culture

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AHA! Agile Leadership Journey
Task-focused
Do the work
Results-focused
Direct the work
Drive and measure
Growth-focused
Guide people/change
Share Leadership
Creative & Adaptive
Expert
Leader
Achiever
Leader
Catalyst
Leader
Based on Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs

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Expanding a Leader’s AHA!
Based on Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs
Less about skill acquisition, more about self-awareness and maturity

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Refocusing Agile Leaders

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Over-Focus on Organization
Over-focus on
Organizational
Agility

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Need Agile Leaders!
Over focus on
Organizational
Agility
Organizations
reflect
Leadership

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Need Agile Leaders!
ADAPTIVE
MIND!
ADAPTIVE
BODY!
"Unless leaders do their
own development work,
they are not likely to create
business transformation.
- Robert Anderson
in Mastering Leadership

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An Agile Leader’s AHA!
Researching Research!
The focus and tools of
research have changed
much in the past 100 years
How we research has not
Global
ResearchLars Bruns

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Researching Himself
Global
Research
Paired Leadership
Lars leads by modeling a paired-
leadership approach – sharing
responsibility & developing others.

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Researching People
M(e) Staffing
Researchers now self-organize
on research projects –
increasing energy & learning Global
Research

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Researching Research
Flash Works
Researchers flash swarm selected
projects across disciplines –
creativity and progress soar. Global
Research

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Need Agile Leaders!
✴Awareness of self
✴Reflects cognitively
✴Open to perspectives
GROWTH MINDSET CATALYST HABITS
✴Experiments on self
✴Coaches for growth
✴Shares ownership

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Over-Focus on Actions
Over-focus on
Productivity and
other outputs

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Need Focus on Enablement
Over-focus on
Productivity and
other outputs
Results are
enabled thru
culture
“You can’t build an adaptable organization
without adaptable people”
- Gary Hamel

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An Agile Leader’s AHA!
Guiding Agile Culture
With a pending integration,
Philipp sought to know and
save his company’s culture.
He ended up influencing the
acquiring company’s culture
Philipp Engstler

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Discovering Their Agile Culture…
Visualizing Culture
Exploring their values
iteratively through visualization
and collaboration

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Sharing Their Agile Culture …
Culture V1.02
The version number indicates
that we expect to inspect &
adapt our culture and behaviors
Urs Schäppi,
CEO Swisscom

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Spreading Their Agile Culture…

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Spreading Their Agile Culture…

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Focus on Enablement
✴Imagines creatively
✴Connects emotionally
✴Seeks & uses feedback
GROWTH MINDSET
AGILE VALUES
✴Creates a safe workplace
✴Guides organization change
✴Builds organization culture

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AgileLeadershipJourney.com
AHA!
Workshop
Leadership
Compass
Leadership
Journey

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AHA! Agile Leadership Workshops
Certified Agile Leadership Workshops
 June 30 - July 1 in Bangalore, India
 August 29-31 in Denver, CO
 September 15-16 in Zurich, Switzerland
 September 28-30 in New York, NY
 October 26-28 in Seattle, WA
 November 16-18 in Washington, DC
 Nov 30 – Dec 2 in Orlando, FL
Register at AgileLeadershipJourney.com/tour

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Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Program
AHA! Journey!

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Tying it all together…
Certified
Agile
Leadership
More to
come…
Some Education
Providers are
pending Scrum
Alliance Approval

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CAL Program Teams
Program Discovery Team
2015
• Pete Behrens
• Steven Denning
• Angela Johnson
• Pollyanna Pixton
• Simon Roberts
Program Design Team
2016
• Pete Behrens
• Peter Green
• Angela Johnson
• Assistance from Sanjiv
Augustine, Scott Dunn
and Brian Rabon
Scrum Alliance Support Team
• Manny Gonzalez
• Erika Jones
• Lisa Reeder

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Thank you!