Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL https://bit.ly/2xY011W. Mark Kilby explores three key disciplines composing our personal operating system for leadership: manage change through experimentation, amplify communication and collaboration, and focus on principles over practices. Filmed at qconlondon.com. Mark Kilby is a Distributed Coach/Mentor & Community Cultivator. With over two decades of experience in agile principles and practices, he has cultivated more distributed and dispersed teams than collocated teams. He has consulted with organizations across many industries and coached teams, leaders, and organizations internally.

1. 3 DISCIPLINES FOR LEADING A
DISTRIBUTED AGILE
ORGANIZATION
Mark Kilby
@mkilby

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5. WHAT ABOUT YOU?

6. • WHAT IS A MINDSET
SHIFT (MIND SHIFT)?
3 DISCIPLINES FOR
LEADING
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
EXPERIMENTING TO
EXPLORE MIND
SHIFTS
Our path today

7. • WHAT IS A MIND
SHIFT?
3 DISCIPLINES FOR
LEADING
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
EXPERIMENTING TO
EXPLORE MIND
SHIFTS
Our path today

8. My first UK trip

9. BEST
PRACTICES
ONLY WORK
IN A CERTAIN
CONTEXT
Lesson that day …

10. IN THE WRONG CONTEXT
“Best Practices” can be harmful

11. ARE TIME ZONES REALLY A
PROBLEM?
(another mind shift)

12. WHAT IF WE CONSIDERED HOURS OF
OVERLAP?

13. WHAT IF WE LET THE
TEAM DECIDE HOURS OF OVERLAP?

15. – 2 mind shifts
“Team hours over office hours”
&
“Give distributed teams choice”

16. • WHAT IS A MIND
SHIFT?
3 DISCIPLINES FOR
LEADING
DISTRIBUTED
TEAMS
EXPERIMENTING TO
EXPLORE MIND
SHIFTS
Our path today

17. 3 KEY MIND SHIFTS FOR
DISTRIBUTED LEADERS
Manage for change through
experiments
Amplify communication and
collaboration
Focus on principles over
practices
These become your “daily
disciplines” or “operating system”
for distributed leadership

18. 3 KEY MIND SHIFTS FOR
DISTRIBUTED LEADERS
Manage for change through
experiments
Amplify communication and
collaboration
Focus on principles over practices
These become your “daily
disciplines” or “operating system”
for distributed leadership

19. IMAGINE A TEAM WORKING TOGETHER …
Performance
Time
Status Quo
Change
introduced

20. IMAGINE A TEAM WORKING TOGETHER …
Performance
Time
Status Quo
Change
introduced
Change could be:
- New process
- New team member
- New leader
- New tools
- New conflict
- Urgent request
- Urgent change in direction
- Tool failure
- Process failure
- Team member out
unexpectedly
- Leader unavailable
- Etc.

21. Our expectations when
we push change on our
teams
Our expectations when
change is imposed
Performance
Time
Status
Quo
New Status
Quo?
Expectations
Change
introduced
Time
Performance
Status
Quo
Change
introduced

22. WHAT REALLY HAPPENS
(UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS)…
Performance
Time
Status Quo
New Status
Quo
Change introduced
and challenges
assumptions

23. SMOOTHING IT OUT, WE GET THE J-CURVE
Time
(1) Status
Quo/Old
Way
(8) New Status
Quo
(2) Change
introduced and
challenges
assumptions
(7) Integrate New
Learning
Performance
(3) Resistance
(5) Initial Results /
Period of
Disruption
(6) (first) Transforming Idea
(4) Unlearning

24. – an attentive audience member
But wait. You said something about
“under the right conditions”?

25. Mind shift: Manage Change Through Experimentation
(How to experiment - last part of presentation)

26. 3 KEY MIND SHIFTS FOR
DISTRIBUTED LEADERS
Manage for change through
experiments
Amplify communication and
collaboration
Focus on principles over practices
These become your “daily
disciplines” or “operating system”
for distributed leadership

27. THIS IS
THE WAY
TO
WORK
REMOTELY
Some believe…

28. A TYPICAL DISTRIBUTED
COLLABORATION PROBLEM
You hire great people from all over
the world
Team sets some good hours of
overlap
Location 1 people work well together
Location 2 & 3 feel isolated (left out of
conversations, small tasks, not clear
on big picture)
Eventually, people in location 2 or 3
either join an all remote team .. Or
just join another company

29. TEAM AFFILIATION OVER LOCATION
AFFILIATION
(another mindshift)
Strengthen
Weaken

30. HOW TO BUILD TEAM
AFFILIATION
Hours of Overlap
Dedicated Team Backchannel
Buddy System & Co-Pilot(s)
Know the Whole Person
Bring everyone together for big
initiative / quarterly planning

31. 3 KEY MIND SHIFTS FOR
DISTRIBUTED LEADERS
Manage for change through
experiments
Amplify communication and
collaboration
Focus on principles over
practices
These become your “daily
disciplines” or “operating system”
for distributed leadership

35. • WHAT IS A MIND
SHIFT?
3 DISCIPLINES FOR
LEADING
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS
EXPERIMENTING TO
EXPLORE MIND
SHIFTS
Our path today

36. HOW TO MANAGE CHANGE THROUGH
EXPERIMENTS?
Hint: Limit the Chaos
Time
Performance
Sometimes known as the “point
of chaos”;
It will get worse before it gets
better as the team wrestles
with change
Chaos

37. TOO MUCH CHANGE
Can the team recover?
(1) Status
Quo/Old Way
(2) Many/Bigger changes
introduced and
challenges assumptions
Performance
Chaos extended. Team may not
come out of chaos without huge
effort and support
Chaos
Chaos
Time

38. TOO MANY CHANGES
Time
(1) Status
Quo/Old
Way
(2) Change
introduced
Performance
(3) Resistance
Chaos
Results may look more like this if team is not given
time to adapt to each change and learn from it.

39. SET EXPERIMENTS
To control the chaos

41. EXPERIMENT WITH, NOT ON
(no one wants to be a lab rat)

42. • WHAT IS A MIND SHIFT?
3 DISCIPLINES FOR LEADING
DISTRIBUTED TEAMS:
MANAGING CHANGE THROUGH
EXPERIMENTS
AMPLIFY COMMUNICATION AND
COLLABORATION
FOCUS ON PRINCIPLES, NOT
PRACTICES
EXPERIMENTING TO EXPLORE
MIND SHIFTS
Our path today

43. THANKS! Q&A? NEED MORE?
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