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How To Be an Agile Leader

7 November 2006

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

Director, Institute for Collaborative Leadershipppixton@evolutionarysystems.net

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Leadership

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

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Agile Leadership

Why become an Agile Leader?

… To create Agile Businesses

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Agile Business

What is an Agile Business? Innovative Operationalizes

Change Focuses on

Business Value Leads Change

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Unleash Innovation

How?

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Agile Leadership

The DOI is not just for IT!

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DOI Values

Continuous Flow of Value

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Flow of Value

Focus on Business Value…

Across theEntireEnterprise!

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Flow of Value

How do we define Business Value?

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Flow of Value

Operationalize Change: Re-visit value flow often,

and on all levels

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Flow of Value

Use Collaborative ProcessTo Keep Value Flowing

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Tools

Collaboration Process

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Collaboration Process

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

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Collaboration Process

1. Agree to: Goals

Objectives

Purpose

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Collaboration Process

2. Brainstorm

3. Group

4. Prioritize

Based on Business Value

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Collaboration Process

5. Individuals Volunteer For What And By When

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DOI Values

Customer Involvement

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Customer Involvement

Convene People From the Entire Enterprise!

Customers Marketing Sales Finance Technology Manufacturing Stakeholders

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Customer Involvement

Full Value Chain Collaboration

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Customer Involvement

Customer Defines Budget.TeamOwnsBudget.

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DOI Values

Manage Uncertainly

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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.

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Manage Uncertainly

Lead Change: iPod

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DOI Values

Unleash Innovation and Creativity

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Unleash Innovation

Create an Open Environment

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Unleash Innovation

Create an Open Environment:TrustTotal

TransparencyPositive

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Unleash Innovation

Group Decisions

Everyone DecidesWhat by When

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Unleash Innovation

Total Transparency Everyone has full and entire view.

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Does everyone have what they need to succeed?

Unleash Innovation

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

Unleash Innovation

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Unleash Innovation

“Organizations change in the directionin which they inquire.”

Listen.Inquire.Question.

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Unleash Innovation

LeaveTimeForCreativity

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DOI Values

Group Accountability

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Group Accountability

Team DecidesHow to HoldEach Other Accountable

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Group Accountability

TeamsSelf-select

TeamsNeedLeaders

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Group Accountability

People who do not deliverare off the bus.

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DOI Values

Situationally Specific Strategies, Processes and Practices

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Processes and Practices

ConstantlyCollaborateOn GoalsAndInnovation

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Processes and Practices

Innovate To Stay Ahead of the Market

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Processes and Practices

ConstantlyIncrease FlowInProcesses

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Processes and Practices

Individual and

Team Ownership

Of Your Company

- All Of It!

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Summary

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

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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

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Contact

Pollyanna Pixton: www.evolutionarysystems.net www.collaborative-leadership.com www.apln.org 801 . 209 . 0195 P2@ppixton.com