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Regardless of Your Role
Johanna Rothman
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Some Stories of
Inadvertent Leadership
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Common Themes
• See a problem
• Brainstorm solutions
• Involve others
• Experiment
• Create a new reality
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What is Leadership?
• Change something about
the status quo
• Collaborate with others
• Create effective change
when the situation
changes
• Adaptability to achieve
the necessary solution(s)
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What Leadership is Not
• Heroic
• Something you do alone
• All action
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Adaptable leaders create
effective change when the
situation changes.
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Leadership Requires Courage
• Courage to:
• Take a step for yourself
• Ally with others
• Suggest change with and
for others
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Courage is not Fearlessness
• “What’s the worst thing
that can happen?”
• Manage risks in many
ways:
• Socializing ideas
• Trying them yourself
• Developing several
options
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Start WithYour Mindset
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Carol Dweck,
Mindset
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Focus on the Possible
• When you focus, you
change how your brain
works
• When you consider the
possible, your
expectations shape reality
• Source: http://
www.strategy-
business.com/article/
06207?pg=all
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Expectations Shape Our
Reality
• Expectations shape us
• Everyone on your team
has potential—of some
sort
• It’s all about mindset
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You live up (or down) to
your own expectations.
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Changing Mindset is
Challenging
• We often confuse our
roles or titles with our
identities
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Change is good.
You first.
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Have the Courage to
Become…
• A T-shaped person
• Someone who questions
the way things are
• Collaborative
• Change artist
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Inspect and Adapt to Change
• Ability to solve problems
• Focus on what could be
• Adaptability
• Perseverance and grit
• Leadership
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Inspect
Adapt
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How DoYou Solve Problems?
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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People don’t resist change;
They resist being changed.
— Peter Senge
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WaysYou Persevere
• Explain the value of the
change
• Decide how the change
manifests your values
• Celebrate incremental
progress
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Agile is Change
• Cultural change
• Project change
• Process change
• Teams might change
• Each person can become
a leader in a self-
organizing team
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Become a Change Artist
• Invite people to change
• Experiment
• Listen to everyone
• Don’t label people
• Start with the smallest
possible change
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Artistry is Difficult
• Requires a particular
mindset:
• Let’s experiment
• Let’s learn early (instead
of fail fast)
• Let’s learn as we go
• Think Growth Mindset
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Lead from Anywhere
• Your title is irrelevant
• Your actions count
• Adapt: change to fit your
reality
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Become an agile leader:
What can you learn here
today to consider for your
leadership tomorrow?
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References and Resources
• My questions on
createadaptablelife.com
• Pragmatic Manager and
other articles on
jrothman.com
• Explore more at the
InfluentialAgileLeader.com
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Let’s Stay in Touch
• Pragmatic Manager:
• www.jrothman.com/
pragmaticmanager
• Please link with me on
LinkedIn
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