Where do agile leaders come from? Kati Vilkki - Agile Alliance

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Where do agile leaders come from?

Kati Vilkki

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Nokia Siemens Networks
• Joint venture of Nokia and Siemens,
acquired Motorola’s wireless networks
infrastructure business in 2011
• Started operations on April 1, 2007
• €14 bn net sales in 2011
• 120+ years of telecom experience
• c. 63,000 employees*
• Strong focus on mobile broadband and
customer experience management
• > 80 out of the top 100 operators worldwide
• 150+ countries
• 6 billion mobile subscriptions around the
world with 1.2 billion subscriptions for mobile
broadband services
* As reported on 30.6.2012
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All models are wrong, but some are
useful

George E.P. Box
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Contents
• Servant leadership
• Why self-organization?
• What impacts self-organization?
• Power
• Empowerment – personal relationship to power
• Impact of leadership style
• Some tools
• How to make this real? Experiences of changing leadership culture

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Servant leadership
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Leadership as a service
• Leadership as a service to help us to reach our goals, to be
successful

• Any act, which helps us to move forward towards our goal
• Anything that helps us to make sense or take action
• Any one can act!

• Shared leadership – from hierarchical relationships to
networks of equals and working together
– Agreeing to lead and to be lead
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Important leadership tasks
• Ensuring business profitability / success

• Creating an engaging vision of what we do

• Mentoring and coaching

• Leading the culture

• Creating an environment for people to thrive and succeed in
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Why self-organization?
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Energy
• Think back to a situation where you felt full of energy at work
– What was the situation? What happened?
– What did you do?
– Who else was involved?
– What contributed to you having high energy?

• In pairs
– Tell your story to your pair
– Listen to you pair’s story

• Discuss your experiences together; are there any common
things?
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What motivates us?
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

• Basic factors which are needed
– Adequate rewarding
– Job security

– lack of these can destroy motivation but these will not increase motivation
Daniel H. Pink: Drive – the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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