The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema
6. Leaders, Everywhere
One of the hallmarks of an agile organization is a minimum of hierarchy, coupled with autonomy for teams to do whatever it takes to deliver value for customers. Chapter 5 highlighted how this creates tension in the traditional organization’s management hierarchy, as managers feel threatened by having their authority undermined. The case study also illustrated the benefits of helping agile teams to self-organize, which allowed the case study team to apply what they had learned to help quickly solve challenging problems that the traditional management hierarchy hadn’t anticipated and to which it couldn’t respond.
For organizations to achieve enterprise agility, they have to let go of the idea that leadership is a quality ...
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