by Esther Derby | Sep 6, 2011 | Leadership & Management
“A talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while there is determined by his relationship with his immediate... 
by Esther Derby | Aug 12, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management, Systems and Complexity
How can managers support teams to truly support team responsibility? In the early days of Agile, some pundits (and developers) declared, “We don’t need no stinking managers.” They asserted that if teams were self-managed, management work was waste.... by Esther Derby | Jul 28, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
Every team needs leadership, even self-organizing teams. When I make this statement, some people assume I mean that every team needs a designated leader. I can’t blame them, most people are accustomed to thinking of leadership residing in a role or a charismatic... by Esther Derby | Jul 13, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Organizational Change
Slides from a talk I gave on Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives: Double Loop Learning in Retrospectives View more presentations from Esther Derby And take a look at PROMOTING DOUBLE LOOP LEARNING IN RETROSPECTIVES. by Esther Derby | Jun 17, 2011 | Leadership & Management, Systems and Complexity
Some pundits proclaim that leadership rests on charisma, the ability to create a vision, or “presence.” Teams do need a vision and a compelling goal. But do teams need one charismatic leader? No.Teams need leaders of a different sort. Teams need leaders...
