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How to “create the conditions”: Engage, Invite, Celebrate

As leaders, we are often called to “create the conditions” for things like performance, innovation, agility, resilience, and so on. But what does it mean to lead when those things are on the agenda? Touching on issues of product, strategy, and organisation, we will explore an easily-remembered leadership framework – a way to recognise leadership when it is (or isn’t) happening, and identify areas of your own leadership practice that you can work on.

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• Updated November 15th, 2024 (dropbox.com)

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• Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (blog.agendashift.com)
• Leading with Outcomes^* (Agendashift Academy)
• Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale^* (Agendashift Academy)
• Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales^* (Agendashift Academy)
• Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) template
• Done
• Changeban, the Lean Startup-inspired Kanban simulation game

^*Save 15% with coupon code KEYNOTE15.

References:

• The Timeless Way of Building,
  Christopher Alexander (OUP USA, 1980)
• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile, Mike Burrows (2019, audiobook 2020)
• Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges, Mike Burrows (2024)
• Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation,
  Mike Burrows (forthcoming, expected 2025)
• Brain of the Firm,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1972)
• The Heart of Enterprise,
  Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1979)
• The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model,
  Patrick Hoverstadt (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)

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Leading with Outcomes

Agendashift Academy’s core curriculum:

1. Foundation module
   • Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
2. Inside-out Strategy
   • (I): On the same page, with purpose
   • (II): Fit for maximum impact
3. Adaptive Organisation
   • (I): Business agility at every scale
   • (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
4. Outside-in Strategy
   • (I): Positioned for success
   • (II): A platform for performance

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• Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
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• Adaptive Organisation Assessment

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