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The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations
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The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations

by Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

The bookshelves of the world abound with books on leadership. Authors of diverse backgrounds serve up a steady stream of titles that inspire admiration and imitation of the examples set by great leaders. And yet, despite all this, many still strain against the yoke of bad leaders, toiling pointlessly toward uncertain goals and wondering, “When will things be different?”

We think there are two problems with most literature on leadership. First, focusing on the behavior of great leaders gives little insight into how leadership develops. We rarely see their uncertain early steps, the difficult choices and circumstances that led them to make different choices, or the price they paid for choosing a different way. We see the leader-hero in ...

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ISBN: 9780137591558