Understanding Leadership Culture and Business Agility with Todd Little

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)

Autonomy Connection and Excellence as Organisational Motivators with Doc Norton

Michael Norton (Doc) is a software delivery professional working to make the world of software development a better place. His experience covers a wide range of development topics. He has shared valuable insights on how to teach the team to think when building a collaborative team. He says this is the biggest problem in most environment. The challenge is we incentivise and recognise people for individual performance. There should be rewards to encourage group behaviours. Doc also speaks about how autonomy connection and excellence works as organisational motivators.

Interviewee: Doc Norton (Co-Founder, OnBelay)

Doc is a software delivery professional working to make the world of software development a better place. His experience covers a wide range of development topics. Doc declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise.

A frequent and well-rated international speaker, Doc is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and building great organizations. In his role at OnBelay, Doc is provided opportunities to realize his passion every day.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)