Leaders are the glue in a delivery culture.
One of the aspects of a shift to Agile that is more difficult to live is transferring decision making powers to teams. This is especially so when priorities change and [...]
We spend a lot of time talking about how the processes change when we are in an Agile system, but not a lot of time about how we should change [...]
Today was the first ever Servant Leadership meet up (well at least in Gauteng) and boy was I impressed. We had some really interesting conversations, exploring how cultures are generated, [...]
One of my favourite books is Reinventing Organisations by Laloux. In it he describes how organisations hav e evolved over the centuries. The goal has always been to bring individuals [...]
There are leaders who use power to lead and there are leaders who are powerful in that they don’t use power or fear or the usual tools to get things [...]
When I do talks around creating an Agile Culture shift I will go through the fundamental mental models and belief systems that underpin the old culture and then a learning, [...]
A re-post from vernavanschaik.com. We tend to think of command and control (unilateral control) as something that only leaders live. The language we use re-in forces this belief, especially as [...]
This was a post I wrote for my personal blog, VernavanSchaik.com in June of 2017. I had just started as a full time facilitator of the in-house Servant Leadership workshop [...]
