Agile Leadership

No more Common Leadership Posters in the Free Agile in a Nutshell series from Dandy People

HIPPO Concepts for Agile

decisions
Catalyst Leadership
Management 3.0

in a Nutshell
Systems Thinking
Servant Leadership

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Top management ... those who have performance. mia.kolmodin@dandypeople.com
is too far away to make knowledge about "Empowered Teams"
good decisions based customer needs don't Free download:
on customer needs ... have mandate to act on it. System built for Flexibility
Low Autonomy High dandypeople.com/blog

Cynefin by Dave Snowden Agile Onion by AWA, Simon Powers Alignment/Autonomy Leadership inspired by Henrik Kniberg Expert, Achiever, Catalyst Leadership illustrations inspired by Peter Behrens