Inversion Management - 21st Century Leadership
Using the term "Management" in the title of this blog, reflects part of the problem with the dominant logic of mainstream business. I've been with TV Network for just over a year now, and its been exciting, frustrating, inspiring, draining, hard work and fun! Establishing an agile project, running an agile programme, creating an agile department, evolving an agile company... each level requires new skills, different perspectives, perseverance and openness to change. Your perspectives change, you change... I believe the most successful business leaders today are shifting through an Inversion of Leadership. The inherited perception and mindset of management, is one of hierarchy, command & control, transactional leadership, management by exception, reward & recognition, sequential projects and long-term strategic planning. Agile leaders believe in flat structures for real-time communication, encourage delegation and de-centralisation of control, exude transformationa...