The Yipster's got me thinking about this with his post on project culture. I immediately thought of Level 5 leadership.
I think Jason’s blog entry follows on from a comment and a discussion, on the fact that managers do better than developers at the XP game. This came from Mike Lee who has recently run about 10 XP games for one of our clients, as a part of a company wide introduction to agile.
Why? Maybe because managers are better at self-organisation. The crux here I think, is that good managers are also good team members. This draws me back to Jim Collins’s research, that truly great leaders have the ability to work at all 5 of levels of his pyramid, and that skipping levels is something that needs to be made up later.
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I actually already had that blog in the queue before Mike's presentation. One of my points would be that I don't believe that "managers" are better at self-organisation. I believe that organisational culture will strongly influence which groups of people self-organise. My point would be that I would prefer a culture that allows everyone to practice self-organisation. Democracy for everyone, if you will, not just the "landowners".
Ah ok, the two events just got me thinking.
I agree completely with you.
I think that in most organisations only managers are expected to self-organise. I don't agree that this should be that case. It is simply what I have observed.
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