Institute for Collaborative Leadership Evolutionary Systems Consulting

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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 n
• President, Evolutionary Systems
• Director, Institute for Collaborative Leadership
• ppixton_at_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 the
• Entire
• Enterprise!

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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
• Process
• To 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.
• Team
• Owns
• Budget.

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DOI Values

• Manage Uncertainly

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Manage Uncertainly

• If you dont have uncertainty, do you know what
  you dont know?
• If you dont 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
• Trust
• Total Transparency
• Positive

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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

• Leave
• Time
• For
• Creativity

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DOI Values

• Group Accountability

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Group Accountability

• Team Decides
• How to Hold
• Each 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

• Constantly
• Collaborate
• On Goals
• And
• Innovation

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Processes and Practices

• Innovate To Stay Ahead of the Market

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Processes and Practices

• Constantly
• Increase
• Flow
• In
• Processes

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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_at_ppixton.com