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About the Book
This Manifesto for Humane Leadership started in 2018 during BMW Group IT’s agile transformation. The original six theses at the core were the first attempt to answer the question of how leadership needs to change to enable empowerment and self-organization as core elements of true agility.
In hindsight, this transformation journey was just a welcome opportunity to breathe new life into long-standing concepts of servant leadership. Over time, this book became the idealistic attempt to create organizations and working environments that are more “species-appropriate” for knowledge workers.
This Manifesto for Humane Leadership is based on Peter Drucker’s preliminary work on knowledge work and the leadership of knowledge workers, as well as on the positive image of human beings in Theory Y from Douglas McGregor’s much-neglected book “The Human Side of Enterprise.” Therefore, the title can and should be understood as an allusion to this human side of organizations and collaboration
About the Author
Dr. Marcus Raitner supports companies as an agile coach, believing that elephants can dance. After earning his doctorate in computer science at the University of Passau, he worked as an IT project manager at msg systems. In 2010, he joined esc Solutions, a small start-up focused on project management and coaching, eventually becoming the Managing Director. From 2015, he worked with BMW Group IT as an Agile Transformation Agent, and later at Infineon as an agile coach focusing on agile leadership. As of April 2022, Marcus Raitner leads the "Agile" practice area at Allianz Consulting, overseeing the agile transformation of the Allianz Group with a team of over 20 agile coaches. Since 2010, he has been writing about leadership, digitalization, new work, and agility on his blog.