Accelinnova announces its first public offering on their Collaborative Leadership Tools taught by International Collaborative Business Leaders Pollyanna Pixton...
Thanks! I ordered Beyond Budgeting from Amazon a couple of days ago. Glad to hear it is a good book. Huntzinger's Lean Cost Management describes current cost...
I think the reward systems one of the culprits. I was doing some research on Peter Drucker (one of my favorite management writers) and found that he became...
This is a great point Mary. Corporations have hierarchies and structures often based on their legal design, and ill suited for managing the value delivery...
Hi Robin, As a newbie to this entire philosophy, i still dont get one thing. How exactly does an Agile Manager train his team to be self managing ? How does he...
... does ... manager ... and ... self ... his ... does he ... specific ... to ... the ... picture ... this ... eye ... head like ... i am ... Chak. I actually...
... One way is http://estherderby.com/workshops/secrets.htm ... Can you not see the quality being produced? And what other objectives do you mean? Are these...
Hi Chak, These are great questions. George has pointed you to some great resources from Esther Derby on self organizing teams, Esther is an authority in this ...
Hi Chak, Since you are in India, I would not expect that an American model of self-organized teams would be the only model of leadership that you might ...
Thanks Robin, Mary , George for your replies. Regards, Chak. ... Thanks Robin, Mary , George for your replies. Regards, Chak. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:57...
Thanks Alan. ... Thanks Alan. ... Chak. I actually do not think you want self-managing teams as much as teams that figure out what the best way for them...
Hi guys, I know there are one billion books on management but do you have some tips on books related to management models and/or efficient teamwork/team...
HI Emil, Here is something to puzzle over. GM Is Bankrupt: Does That Mean GM Managers Are Bad Managers? http://www.lean.org/shook/ Robin. ... -- Robin Dymond,...
My favorite management writer is Jeffry Pfeffer. Two of his books that I really like were co-authored with Robert Sutton. These are: The Knowing-Doing Gap...
Scholtes book "The Leaders Handbook" is pretty awesome. It incorporates lean management throughout as well. I just noticed mary's recommendations before this...
Thanks so much Mary. I hope the list was prioritized since that was a big batch ;-) Robin, I agree with John Shook. I have asked myself the same question ...
Is there any possibility to have a recommended book list in this group? It seems you are sitting on a lot of good tips. Emil ... incorporates ... read ... ...
... Nope. Just a lot of the race. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog Just because XP doesn't talk about how to make fire, should we...
Very funny reference. I think if you read shook's managing to learn you see something different than the impression the blog gives. Many in Germany in the 20th...
I will read it when I feel I can motivate the buy to my manager =); LEI's shipping for the book outside the US is as much as the book itself: 40$! two books...
Hi Emil, My list was in priority of authors, not books. You only need one or two of Pfeffer's to get the idea. Or you can just search the web and find a lot...
Hi Chak, An Iteration/Project Manager's role surely becomes tricky when the team is striving to self organize themselves. But, one word of caution, this should...
Hi there (on Behalf of Chris Matts - who're not part of every mailing list in existence) Each year the Agile 200x conference grows bigger. More people join the...
Hi, We have just begun an AgileBusiness yahoo group. It is for product owners, business analysts and management folks. And anyone who cares about business (ok,...
Hi, folks - At the upcoming Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Brian Shoemaker and I have teamed up to present: "When it just *has* to work: Agile Development...
An almost complete set of videos from Lean & Kanban 2009 Conference are now available via SEP (a sponsor of Lean Software & Systems 2010 Conference). Chris...
All, I recently wrote a blog post about treating projects inside a company like startups: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=305 I see this as related...
Great post, love this line: "The startup/project needs that moment of impending doom to encourage maximum creativity and the moment of actual doom to stop ...