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Institute for Collaborative Leadership Evolutionary Systems Consulting

How To Be an Agile Leader

7 November 2006


P o l l y a n n a P i x t o nPresident, Evolutionary Systems

Director, Institute for Collaborative [email protected]


Leadership

A leader sees the possibility, instills the same possibility in others and helps them create the possibility.


Agile Leadership

Why become an Agile Leader?

… To create Agile Businesses


Agile Business

What is an Agile Business? Innovative Operationalizes

Change Focuses on

Business Value Leads Change


Unleash Innovation

How?


Agile Leadership

The DOI is not just for IT!


DOI Values

Continuous Flow of Value


Flow of Value

Focus on Business Value…

Across theEntireEnterprise!


Flow of Value

How do we define Business Value?


Flow of Value

Operationalize Change: Re-visit value flow often,

and on all levels


Flow of Value

Use Collaborative ProcessTo Keep Value Flowing


Tools

Collaboration Process



None of us are as smart as all of us. – Japanese Proverb



1. Agree to: Goals

Objectives

Purpose



2. Brainstorm

3. Group

4. Prioritize

Based on Business Value



5. Individuals Volunteer For What And By When


DOI Values

Customer Involvement



Convene People From the Entire Enterprise!

Customers Marketing Sales Finance Technology Manufacturing Stakeholders



Full Value Chain Collaboration



Customer Defines Budget.TeamOwnsBudget.


DOI Values

Manage Uncertainly


Manage Uncertainly

If you don’t have uncertainty, do you know what you don’t know?

If you don’t have uncertainty, maybe someone has already done it?

Eliminating uncertainty eliminates options which can destroy value.


Manage Uncertainly

Lead Change: iPod


DOI Values

Unleash Innovation and Creativity


Unleash Innovation

Create an Open Environment


Unleash Innovation

Create an Open Environment:TrustTotal

TransparencyPositive


Unleash Innovation

Group Decisions

Everyone DecidesWhat by When


Unleash Innovation

Total Transparency Everyone has full and entire view.


Does everyone have what they need to succeed?

Unleash Innovation


How do I create a place where people want to be?

Unleash Innovation


Unleash Innovation

“Organizations change in the directionin which they inquire.”

Listen.Inquire.Question.


Unleash Innovation

LeaveTimeForCreativity


DOI Values

Group Accountability



Team DecidesHow to HoldEach Other Accountable



TeamsSelf-select

TeamsNeedLeaders



People who do not deliverare off the bus.


DOI Values

Situationally Specific Strategies, Processes and Practices


Processes and Practices

ConstantlyCollaborateOn GoalsAndInnovation



Innovate To Stay Ahead of the Market



ConstantlyIncrease FlowInProcesses



Individual and

Team Ownership

Of Your Company

- All Of It!


Summary

Innovate and Lead Change Operationalize Change Collaboration Process Customer Involvement Open Environment Teams Decisions


References

Good to Great, Jim Collins

The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler

Leadership Is An Art, Max DePree

Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis

www.collaborative-leadership.com


Contact

Pollyanna Pixton: www.evolutionarysystems.net www.collaborative-leadership.com www.apln.org 801 . 209 . 0195 [email protected]

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