The paradox of managing a self-organizing team
The paradox of managing a self-organizing team
A guide for self-learning leaders
About the Book
In this book I try to bundle all the things I have learned as a leader and coach working with self-organized teams, giving you the opportunity to accelerate your learning path by seeing the mistakes I made and the resources I used (and still use) to correct and create a better working world for all.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Meet Marc
- About this book
- In this book
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Systems Theory
- Types of systems
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Command and Control
- An easy test for command-and-controlism
- So what?
- But why?
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The vacuum fallacy
- Let them play games?
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Let them play games!
- The real properties of a game
- The obstacle
- Properties of play
- Working can be like playing, but better
- Your game needs a good host
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Making it safe to play
- Psychlogical Safety
- It’s starts with relationships
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Alignment
- It’s all about context
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Fly, pigs! Fly!
- Mastery for Autonomy
- Autonomy comes with frustrations and flow
- The t-shaped people trap
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Whole > E(parts)
- What is this leadership anyway?
- A word about leadership and management
- This book was not a recipe book
- This book is not complete
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Acknowledgements
- Images
- A big thanks
- Notes
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