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Pawel Brodzinski @pawelbrodzinski People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives

People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives

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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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Pawel Brodzinski

@pawelbrodzinski

People, System, Culture: Where Leadership Thrives

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Hi, I’m Pawel

Lunar Logic http://lunarlogic.io

Blog http://brodzinski.com

Twitter @pawelbrodzinski

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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

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Empowerment

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Systems Thinking

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95% of performance is attributable to the system

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Performance or performance variability?

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Is variability bad?

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Development of software products is a betting business

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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/

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The system in knowledge work

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People and the system is a

symbiotic relationship.

One doesn't govern the other.

Jim Benson

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People versus system is a false dichotomy

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Ad-hoc teams

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Emergent practices

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Autonomy

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A system is not a sum of

behaviors of its parts; it's a

product of their interactions

Russel Ackoff

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What makes one a great candidate?

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Technical skills?

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Craftsmanship?

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Communication skills?

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Learning?

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Superhero

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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

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A system is not a sum of

behaviors of its parts; it's a

product of their interactions

Russel Ackoff

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Intelligence versus

Collective Intelligence

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How are individual and

collective intellingece correlated?

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There’s no connection between individual intelligence and collective intelligence

Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

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Collective intelligence trumps individual intelligence

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Collective intelligence was

much more predictive in terms

of succeeding in complex tasks

than average individual

intelligence or maximal

individual intelligence

Anita Woolley

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Indicators of collective intelligence

Social perceptiveness Evenness of communication

Moderate cognitive style diversity

Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

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How would you feel about

working with women in your

team?

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The more women the better collective intelligence*

Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

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Understanding team dynamics

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Sofware development is a team sport

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Optimizing for collaboration

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Software development business?

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Two days of my work was

summarized by a commit that

adds five lines of code and

removes two

Marcin Kostrzewa, Lunar Logic

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Happiness business!

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40% women

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Not enough women in the industry?

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No formal leadership Emergent, contextual

leadership

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Empathy catalyzes everyone’s

development

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A bad system will defeat a good

person every time

W. Edwards Deming

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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

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Mission Statements

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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

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How far can people go changing the system?

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It’s easier to ask forgiveness

than it is to get permission

Grace Hopper

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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

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How new hires infuence organizational culture?

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Hiring for cultural fit

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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

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What would happen if we tore down

existing hierarchies?

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#NoManagement

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Emergent values

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Participation in strategy creation

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If you don’t like something…

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If you don’t know what to tell, tell the truth

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Optimize for clients’ happiness

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CEO role

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Cultural fit

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Let misfits go

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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

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How we design and evolve the system

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Who is capable of leading

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How leadership skills are used

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What kind of stuff people can influence

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Participatory leadership

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The ultimate goal: everyone is a leader

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Thank you

Pawel Brodzinski brodzinski.com

lunarlogic.io

@pawelbrodzinski