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Book Reviews English LeadershipDecember 20, 2015by Martin Ellemann Olesen8

Which Book Should a Mid-Level Manager New to Agile Read during the Christmas Holidays?

Yesterday, my colleague, Kristian Haugaard (@haugaards), asked on our Ugilic Google hangout; Which book should a mid-level manager new to Agile read during the christmas holidays? My instinctive answer was Scrum for Managers: Management Secrets to Building Agile & Results-Driven Organizations by Rini van Solingen (@solingen) and Rob van Lanen (@robvanlanen). The book is a ‘how to...

English Future of Work LeadershipDecember 6, 2015by Martin Ellemann Olesen0

Can Agile Help Us Reinvent Organizations?

In two recent posts on the history of organizational development, I discussed Taylorism and the need for a new leadership paradigm, and the five levels of organizational consciousness discussed by Frederic Laloux in his book Reinventing Organizations. In this post, I will follow-up by discussing how Agile values and practices fit with the Evolutionary-Teal paradigm,...

Book Reviews English Future of Work LeadershipAugust 14, 2015by Martin Ellemann Olesen0

Reinventing Organizations – In Search of a New Leadership Paradigm

In my previous post, After 100 Years of Taylorism, We Need a New Leadership Paradigm, I discussed why Frederick Winslow Taylor’s scientific management paradigm is no longer a winning strategy in today’s world. In this post, I want to put Taylor’s thinking into an evolutionary perspective by discussing the recent book Reinventing Organizations by Belgian...

English LeadershipAugust 4, 2015by Martin Ellemann Olesen0

After 100 Years of Taylorism, We Need a New Leadership Paradigm

100 years ago, in 1915, Frederick Winslow Taylor, one of the most influential management thinkers in history, passed away at the age of 59. In 1911, four years prior to his death, Taylor published his famous book The Principles of Scientific Management, which still influences the way we teach and practice management today. Taylor believed...

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Which Book Should a Mid-Level Manager New to Agile Read during the Christmas Holidays?

Can Agile Help Us Reinvent Organizations?

Reinventing Organizations – In Search of a New Leadership Paradigm

After 100 Years of Taylorism, We Need a New Leadership Paradigm

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