In these three days (March 19-21 in Washington DC), you will discover how to use radical management to thrive in the 21st Century creative economy and the world of continuous innovation.
If you’re a business leader…
It’s discovering how to operate in a world of no-tradeoffs: how to get outsized outcomes for the organization along with inspired workers and thrilled customers and stakeholders.
It’s about creating authenticity in the workplace, both for you, for the people you work with and for, and for the people who work for you.
It’s a way of getting in touch with the broader global movement for management change, epitomized in the Agile Manifesto (2001) for software development and the Stoos Gathering (2012) for general management.
The workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com and/or call Peter Stevens
at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal
(quote code SD1). Note: Other sessions will take place in April and May.
Because each of the shifts in management principles is reinforced and supported by scores of well-established management practices, the transformation is down-to-earth, practical and doable in your workplace.
Because none of the shifts individually is new, what you will learn is robust, Each is supported by years of experience and research.
It’s a lively combination of presentation of the principles and practices along with their history and theoretical justification, an exploration of practical examples of the experiences of actual organizations and interactive exercises and conversations that will enhance experiential learning and discovery.
The participants learn from each other as well as from the instructors so that the workshop becomes a voyage of co-creation and mutual learning.
The workshop is designed to inspire learning in the deepest sense, enhancing your capacity to respond with complexity, compassion and authenticity to the daily dilemmas you face.
This workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1). Note: Other sessions will take place in April and May.
Steve’s blog on Forbes attracts around half a million page-views per month. Read it here: http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/
Steve’s article, "Rethinking The Organization" was as the Outstanding Article of 2010 in the journal Strategy & Leadership. His article, "Masterclass: The reinvention of management" was selected by the editors of Strategy & Leadership for the Outstanding Paper Award for 2011.
From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).
Steve has written five other business books, including The Secret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2011). He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative and most recently, radical management.
Web: www.stevedenning.com
He writes the Scrum Breakfast blog and has been a regular contributor to the website: AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. His popular articles include 10 Contracts for Your Next Agile Software Project and Explaining Story Points to Management.
Peter started his career as a Software Engineer at Microsoft in 1982. He is the initiator of the Swiss Lean Agile Scrum Interest Group and works closely with leading Scrum trainers and coaches in Central Europe. Presently he is on sabbatical in Washington DC supporting the Wikispeed project and spreading the word on Radical Management.
The workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1)
If you’re a business leader…
have you ever wondered how your firm could not get beyond merely satisfying your customers and clients, but delight
them? And not just once or twice, but consistently day after day, year
after year? Have you ever wondered how your firm is going to survive and
thrive as the world economy goes through a fundamental phase
change—from industrial bureaucracy to a creative economy of continuous
innovation?
If you’re an Agile or Scrum coach…
have you ever wondered what it would take to make the entire
organization Agile? Have you ever considered how to get your
Agile/Scrum teams the support from top management that they need to be
sustainable? Do you know how to powerfully communicate the essence of
Agile to senior managers and inspire them to support your teams?
If you’re a public sector manager…
have you ever wondered why you keep
facing across-the-board cuts, and keep being asked to watch “do more for
less”, only to see this turn into “less for less”? Have you ever
wondered how you could break the seemingly unchangeable cycle of
cost/benefit tradeoffs?
If you’re an entrepreneur in a startup…
have you ever wondered how you can grow
the firm without it succumbing to deadly drag of traditional management
and turn the workplace into a dreary grind? Are you concerned that the
fun of launching a new business will eventually have to stop and that
your dreams will turn into the world you were trying to get away from?
If you’re a middle manager,…
have you ever wondered why your great
innovations and improved ways of doing things don’t seem to have any
lasting traction? Have you ever wanted to know how to get your bosses on
board with what you’re doing and get the whole organization in sync
with your innovations, rather than be forced to trim your ideas to fit
the bureaucracy?
If you’re a management consultant or executive coach
have you wondered how you could light a
fire under your clients and get them to break out of defunct management
practices? Have you ever wondered how to inspire your clients to avoid
the lethal disease of disruptive innovation and spark their
organizations with continuous innovation and high profitability?
Then just imagine...
- Having three days of immersion in highly interactive workshop that not only answered these questions, but also embodied a process of experiential learning that is tailored precisely to the very issues that you want to learn about?
- Having one-on-one conversations with some of the world’s leading experts in the new world of creative economy that is emerging?
- Working on a new game plan with practical actions to respond to your goals, in collaboration with other like-minded innovators, with everyone’s mind on fire, and striking sparks from each other’s thinking?
- Having access to the best ideas in the world about these issues and seeing how they relate to the the best ideas from the finest thinkers, including Peter Drucker, Clayton Christensen, Gary Hamel, Roger Martin, Ranjay Gulati and many more?
Is this possible?
This workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1). Note: Other sessions will take place in April and May.What the workshop isn’t
Well, let’s be clear.
This workshop isn’t a quick fix.
It isn’t some flaky new idea that hasn’t been tested in actual experience.
It isn’t more of the same old command-and-control management, repackaged under a different label.
It isn’t some vague subjective pie-in-the-sky chimera that can’t be measured.
What this workshop is
It’s a journey in which you learn about
how organizations like your own that have figured out how to get
continuous innovation, AND deep job satisfaction AND delighted
customers, AND do this sustainably, as the permanent way in which the
organization runs, ALL AT THE SAME TIME
It’s undergoing set of experiences that involving fundamental rethinking of what it takes to get things done in the tumultuous world of the 21st Century organization: the world will never look the same again.
It’s undergoing set of experiences that involving fundamental rethinking of what it takes to get things done in the tumultuous world of the 21st Century organization: the world will never look the same again.
It’s a voyage of discovery, in which you
will learn and embody a way of thinking, speaking and acting that is
radically different from the traditional command-and-control bureaucracy
that is pervasive in organizations today.
It’s discovering how to operate in a world of no-tradeoffs: how to get outsized outcomes for the organization along with inspired workers and thrilled customers and stakeholders.
It’s about creating authenticity in the workplace, both for you, for the people you work with and for, and for the people who work for you.
It’s a way of getting in touch with the broader global movement for management change, epitomized in the Agile Manifesto (2001) for software development and the Stoos Gathering (2012) for general management.
The principles: five fundamental shifts
This radical management workshop explores five fundamental shifts in management principles, each of which is based on many years of research and experience:- A shift in the firm’s bottom line from maximizing shareholder value to customer delight (in public sector organizations: it’s a shift from outputs to stakeholder outcomes)
- A shift the role of managers from controllers to enablers.
- A shift the coordination of work away from cumbersome bureaucracy (plans, reports, meetings) to agile linking of real work to customer outcomes.
- A shift from solely economic value to the values that will grow your organization: transparency, continuous improvement and sustainability.
- A shift communications from top-down commands to conversation.
A different way of measuring organizational performance
It involves a shift in measuring organizational performance from outputs to outcomes:- Measuring customer delight on any scale from one customer to a million customers, and using the measurement to enhance organizational results.
- Measuring the goal of individual work teams in terms of customer delight, through user stories
- Measuring the forgotten dimension of organizational performance: time.
- Measuring organizational performance in real time through social media.
Because each of the shifts in management principles is reinforced and supported by scores of well-established management practices, the transformation is down-to-earth, practical and doable in your workplace.
Because none of the shifts individually is new, what you will learn is robust, Each is supported by years of experience and research.
How the workshop will unfold
The conduct of the workshop embodies the principles, practices and values that are being taught.It’s a lively combination of presentation of the principles and practices along with their history and theoretical justification, an exploration of practical examples of the experiences of actual organizations and interactive exercises and conversations that will enhance experiential learning and discovery.
The participants learn from each other as well as from the instructors so that the workshop becomes a voyage of co-creation and mutual learning.
The workshop is designed to inspire learning in the deepest sense, enhancing your capacity to respond with complexity, compassion and authenticity to the daily dilemmas you face.
This workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1). Note: Other sessions will take place in April and May.
Who’s giving the workshop?
Steve Denning
Steve Denning is a globally-recognized thought leader in leadership, management and innovation. His book, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010 was selected by 800-CE0-READ as one of the best five books on management in 2010.Steve’s blog on Forbes attracts around half a million page-views per month. Read it here: http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/
Steve’s article, "Rethinking The Organization" was as the Outstanding Article of 2010 in the journal Strategy & Leadership. His article, "Masterclass: The reinvention of management" was selected by the editors of Strategy & Leadership for the Outstanding Paper Award for 2011.
From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).
Steve has written five other business books, including The Secret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2nd edition, 2011). He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative and most recently, radical management.
Web: www.stevedenning.com
Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens is an independent management trainer, coach, writer and community builder. His focus is on helping organizations thrive in the 21st century. Building on proven frameworks like Scrum, Radical Management, Management 3.0, and Kanban, he provides coaching and training to help you and your team manage and execute effectively while building products which delight your customers.He writes the Scrum Breakfast blog and has been a regular contributor to the website: AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com. His popular articles include 10 Contracts for Your Next Agile Software Project and Explaining Story Points to Management.
Peter started his career as a Software Engineer at Microsoft in 1982. He is the initiator of the Swiss Lean Agile Scrum Interest Group and works closely with leading Scrum trainers and coaches in Central Europe. Presently he is on sabbatical in Washington DC supporting the Wikispeed project and spreading the word on Radical Management.
The workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1)
What specifically will you learn in this workshop?
Why 20th Century management fails
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Thriving in the 21st Century creative economy
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The new bottom line: customer delight
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The role of managers in creative economy
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Coordinating work without bureaucracy
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Instilling the values of radical management
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Communications: command to conversation
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Measuring performance in the creative economy
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How the workshop will unfold....
First day morning Orientation and ice-breakers
Jumpstart storytelling to introduce each other
What’s wrong with traditional managementRemembering customer delight
Presentation
Interactive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
First day afternoon Principles of radical management
Presentation
Principle of customer delightInteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations
Presentation
Interactive Exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
Second day morning Mmanagers: enabler of self-organizing teams
Presentation
Coordinating work: linking to customer delightInteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations
Presentation
Interactive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
Second day afternoon From value to values:
Presentation
Coordinating work: linking to customer delightInteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations
Presentation
nteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
Third day afternoon Application to the participants’ situations
Case study
Principles of radical implementationInteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations
Presentation
Interactive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
Third day afternoon Coping with constraints on implementation
Case study
Linking with other organizations & movementsInteractive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations
Case study
Interactive exercise Participants’ learnings & celebrations |
>What you’ll take away from this workshop
- A certificate of recognition and commitment to radical management.
- An autographed copy of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management
- A copy of Steve’s award-winning articles from Strategy & Leadership: "Rethinking The Organization" (2010) and "Masterclass: The reinvention of management" (2011)
- Advance chapters of Steve’s next book: “Phase Change: Thriving In The Emerging Creative Economy”
- PDFs of around 1,500 pages of Steve’s articles and commentary
- Skills, techniques and approaches that you can apply in your organization tomorrow
- An action plan for your organization
The smartest thing you can do in the next five minutes?
Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal (quote code SD1)What other experts say about radical management & the creative economy:
We owe our existence to innovation We owe
our prosperity to innovation… We owe our happiness to innovation… We
owe our future to innovation… Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal,
the only deal. Our future no less than our past depends on innovation.
Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (2012)
Steve Denning is one of today’s most
acute and creative critics of traditional management thinking. You would
ignore the ideas at your own peril. He shows how to re-invent
management based on a more accurate and effective understanding of how
humans work best together.
Larry Prusak, Working Knowledge (1998)
Steve Denning goes to the root of the
management issues confronting companies today. Focusing on seven core
principles, he lays out a pragmatic roadmap for shifting the corporation
from a focus on scalable efficiency to a focus on delighting the
customer and each other, while achieving even higher levels of
productivity. In the process, he creates a space where we all can more
fully achieve our potential.
John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge,
Co-author of The Power of Pull (2010)
I’ve spent the last 35 years of my professional life bushwhacking my way towards what I now know, thanks to Steve Denning, is the nirvana called Radical Management. It is a place where delighting customers is the religion and creativity, passion and learning are revered. Denning’s Radical Management is the antidote to the greatest disease in the workplace today, mental resignation due to lack of purpose. Radical Management should be required reading for anyone entering the work force or looking to reignite their inner bushwhacker!
Sam Bayer, CEO, b2b2dot0
This workshop is taking place on March 19-21, 2012 in Washington DC. Sign up here now http://radical-management.eventbrite.com/ and/or call Peter Stevens
at 240-472-5615 to get more information and a special pricing deal
(quote code SD1). Note: Other sessions will take place in April and May.
John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge,
Co-author of The Power of Pull (2010)
I’ve spent the last 35 years of my professional life bushwhacking my way towards what I now know, thanks to Steve Denning, is the nirvana called Radical Management. It is a place where delighting customers is the religion and creativity, passion and learning are revered. Denning’s Radical Management is the antidote to the greatest disease in the workplace today, mental resignation due to lack of purpose. Radical Management should be required reading for anyone entering the work force or looking to reignite their inner bushwhacker!
Sam Bayer, CEO, b2b2dot0
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