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Self-Organising Enterprises

Management and Coaching in the Agile World

Learn more about the what, why and how of self-organisation by looking at more than 40 companies from various industries and countries.

This book is a translation into English of Self-Organising Enterprises which was originally written in English

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Agility seems to be everybody’s darling these days. Many companies dream of becoming more flexible and responsive. They want to better cope with the complex challenges of a rapidly changing environment and make their business faster and more innovative. What is needed to fulfil this dream? What can we build on? What do we have to change? What does it mean for the way we manage our work? How can professional coaching help?

Self-Organising Enterprises provides practical answers to these questions. By inquiring more than 40 enterprises from various industries and countries it shows why business agility needs self-organisation. Even more, it distils a set of eight principles for any organisation to become both a better place to work and a catalyst for delivering more value to customers.The book describes these principles in great detail and provides concepts and tools that have proven to be helpful. 

This book is a translation into English of Self-Organising Enterprises which was originally written in English

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About the Author

Siegfried Kaltenecker

Siegfried Kaltenecker is joint managing director of Loop Consultancy based in Vienna. As a specialist in Lean and Agile Change Sigi has already been involved in various companies and worked with a myriad of teams and managers. Regularly reviewing his rich experience of more than 25 years of coaching, training and consulting, Sigi has already authored many articles on Agile topics, case studies from the trenches and the English books Leading Self-Organising Teams and Kanban Change Leadership

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Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Part II Scaling Self-Organisation
  2. What is scaling about?

1 Customer First

  1. 1.1 Mission and Vision
  2. Mission Statement
  3. 1.2 Strategy and Culture
  4. Corporate Culture Spaceship
  5. 1.3 Design Thinking
  6. Design Thinking
  7. Customer Interviews

2 Visual Work Management

  1. 2.1 Kanban
  2. Boat in the River
  3. 2.2 Flight Levels
  4. 2.3 Information and Interaction

3 Fast Feedback Loops

  1. 3.1 Meetings
  2. Agile Meetings
  3. Meeting Management
  4. 3.2 Metrics
  5. At the Airport
  6. 3.3 Control
  7. Metrics and Control Systems

4 Customized Decisions

  1. Agile Decision Making
  2. 4.1 Delegating Authority
  3. 4.2 Explicit Decision Management
  4. 4.3 Simple Techniques for Deciding
  5. Consensus and Consent

5 Bold Experiments

  1. 5.1 Growth and Agility
  2. 5.2 Organisation Design
  3. Experiment-friendly Cultures
  4. Facilitating Retrospectives
  5. 5.3 Developing Self-Organisation

6 Lean Organisational Structure

  1. 6.1 Minimum Guidelines
  2. 9.2 Mirror Phenomenon

7 Distributed Management

  1. Management Junkies
  2. 7.1 Leadership through Networking
  3. 7.2 Line Management

8 Continuous Training

  1. 8.1 Kata of Self-Organisation
  2. 8.2 The Power of Emotions
  3. Part III Coaching

15 Coaching Managers

  1. 15.1 Motivation
  2. Agile Drivers
  3. 15.2 Preconditions
  4. Get Involved
  5. 15.3 First Contact
  6. From contact to visit
  7. 15.4 From Contact to Contract
  8. A Running Approach to Coaching
  9. 15.5 Creating Safety
  10. Humble Inquiry Techniques
  11. Letting off some steam
  12. Drawing the Future
  13. 15.6 Creating Uncertainty
  14. Self-organising or not self-organising—that is the question
  15. Management in Action
  16. Triadic Questions
  17. Hypothetical Questions
  18. Classifying Questions
  19. Unwelcome Feedback
  20. Alternatives to Coaching
  21. Key takeaways from this chapter

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