In this insightful discussion with the CEO of Lean Kanban Inc. Todd Little, we begin with understanding how leadership and culture intersect. As per Todd, leaders can have significance influence on culture as they can help shape it. Effective leaders can only do that. Also, he explained his views on asking the right questions in order to assess the culture of an organisation. Asking a right questions depends a lot on observation. The most powerful question is ‘why’ so they know the purpose and business reason of what we are doing. Hear him out to understand leadership, culture and business Agility.
Interviewee: Todd Little (CE), Lean Kanban Inc.)
Todd Little is CEO at Lean Kanban Inc., the leading provider of professional Kanban management training. He is also a Founder at Accelinnova, a leadership and agility consulting group. Previously he has held executive roles as Vice President of Product Development for IHS, and Director of Software and Technology for Landmark Graphics a division of Halliburton.He has been developing or leading the development of software for over 35 years. For the past 10+ years, Todd has been a frequent presenter at Agile and Software conferences around the globe. He is a founding member and past President of the Agile Leadership Network. He has served on the Board of Directors of both the Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network, and was a co-founder and Conference chair for several of the Agile20XX conferences. Todd is a co-author of the book “Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility,” Addison Wesley.
Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)
Action Inquiry | Book Series
Overview:
Bill Torbert and associates illustrate how individuals and organizations can progress through more and more sophisticated “action-logics” — strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it — until they will eventually be able to practice action inquiry continually. Offering action inquiry exercises at the end of the chapters, the book moves from junior managers beginning to practice action inquiry through CEO’s transforming whole companies, to world leaders transforming whole countries, as exemplified by Czech president Vaclav Havel. Through short stories of leadership and organizational transformations, this groundbreaking book illustrates how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability.
Author:
William R. Torbert
Published In:
01 July 2004