Tech Lead Journal
#110 - Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams - Roy Osherove
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Quick takeaways
- Elastic leadership emphasizes transitioning through team phases for effective leadership growth.
- Challenging oneself to reduce bottlenecking in a team fosters self-sufficiency and growth.
- Successful technical leadership involves risk-taking, human psychology understanding, and aligning personal beliefs with actions.
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Leadership Insights from Roy Oshirov
Roy Oshirov, author of 'Elastic Leadership,' shares key leadership styles for guiding teams through stages like survival mode, learning mode, and self-organizing mode.
Importance of Challenging Team Bottlenecks
Effective leadership involves challenging oneself to become less of a bottleneck within the team, thereby fostering growth and self-sufficiency among team members.
Connecting Personal Growth to Leadership
To excel as a technical leader, it is crucial to take risks, understand human psychology, and maintain a clear vision or narrative that aligns personal beliefs with leadership actions and decisions.
“As a team leader, you will become more successful and valuable if you are no longer a bottleneck for the people who are working with you and under you."
Roy Osherove is the author of “Elastic Leadership” and “The Art of Unit Testing”. In this episode, we discussed leadership insights from “Elastic Leadership”. Roy first shared how he came up with the concept and described what elastic leadership is. He explained the different leadership styles based on the 3 team phases (survival mode, learning mode, and self-organizing mode) and advised how leaders can adapt and transition their leadership style from one phase to the other to lead effectively. Roy also shared about the Team Leader manifesto and the Line Manager manifesto to provide guidance on how leaders can grow their teams towards self-organization and self-sufficiency.
Listen out for:
- Career Journey - [00:06:45]
- Writing “Elastic Leadership” - [00:11:31]
- Team Leader Manifesto - [00:17:57]
- There Are No Experts - [00:23:23]
- Survival Mode - [00:30:49]
- Slack Time - [00:37:52]
- Self-Organizing Mode - [00:39:21]
- Learning Mode - [00:41:18]
- Line Manager Manifesto - [00:45:47]
- 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:48:13]
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Roy Osherove’s Bio
Roy Osherove is the organizer of the CD/XP Israel meetup group. He’s the author of “Art of Unit Testing”, “Elastic Leadership” and the upcoming “Co-Ops: Pipeline Driven Organizations”. He has been working in the software industry for over 20 years in most types of technical & testing roles, and these days is working as a freelance consultant & trainer on-site for various companies across the world.
Follow Roy:
- Twitter – @RoyOsherove
- LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/osherove/
- Website – https://osherove.com/
- 5 Whys – https://5whys.com/
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